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• A Psalm for the Wild-built

  Chambers, Becky,

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  The premise: Centuries ago, robots collectively quit their jobs, fleeing to the wilderness and becoming mythical figures. Now, when a robot shows up to ask a tea-growing monk what people need, the deceptively simple question can’t be ignored. Series…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lost Cause

  Doctorow, Cory,

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  The United States of the 2050s looks very different: the Green New Deal has become law, and young Americans like 19-year-old Brooks Palazzo work to ensure a sustainable, low-carbon future while welcoming climate refugees. But some, like Richard's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Dispossessed

  a Novel

  Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-2018,

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  A physicist from isolated Anarres travels to the mother planet, Urras, in hopes of dissolving the hatred that exists between them.

• The Terraformers

  Newitz, Annalee, 1969-

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  Welcome to... the planet Sask-E, an earthlike world slated for terraforming by the Environmental Rescue Team.Where you'll meet: ERT network analyst Destry, who makes a discovery with far-reaching implications; and Misha, Destry's protégé, who…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sea of Tranquility

  a Novel

  Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-

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  In order to investigate an anomaly in the North American wilderness, a detective travels hundreds of years in the past and meets a young Englishman exiled to Canada in 1912 and a famous writer who lives on a moon colony but is on a book tour on…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Binti

  the Complete Trilogy

  Okorafor, Nnedi,

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  This world-building space opera series follows the adventures of Binti, the first person from the Himba people to attend the galactically renowned Oomza University. These thought-provoking Afrofuturist science fiction novellas combine high-stakes…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bear

  Krivak, Andrew,

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  Living close to the land in an Eden-like post-civilization world, a girl learns the secrets of hunting and star navigation before finding herself in an unknown landscape, where a bear imparts powerful natural-world lessons.

• Station Eleven

  Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-

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  One snowy night a famous actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time--from the actor's early days as a film star to twenty years in the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Walkaway

  a Novel

  Doctorow, Cory

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  Abandoning formal society to pursue a minimalist counterculture life in a near-future world wrecked by climate change, a disenchanted senior and his heiress paramour inspire a host of followers who become obsessed with cheating death in ways that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Seep

  Porter, Chana

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  In a world... where a benevolent alien presence known as The Seep has transformed human society into a peaceful, post-capitalist utopia where now-immortal people can "recreate" into any form they wish, Trina Goldberg-Oneka, a middle-aged trans…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Arboreality

  Campbell, Rebecca, 1975-

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  A professor in pandemic isolation rescues books from the flooded and collapsing McPherson Library. A man plants fireweed on the hillside of his depopulated Vancouver Island suburb. An aspiring luthier poaches the last ancient Sitka spruce to make a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Migrations

  McConaghy, Charlotte,

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  A woman who has dedicated her life to protecting the environment convinces a fishing captain and his salty crew to follow the world's last flock of Arctic terns on a migration of dark revelations.

• Too Like the Lightning

  Palmer, Ada,

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  In the 25th century, human civilization is divided into philosophical sects based on technologically generated abundance and inspired by the 18th-century European Enlightenment. In this utopia, convicted felon Mycroft Canner serves his sentence by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How High We Go in the Dark

  a Novel

  Nagamatsu, Sequoia,

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  What it is: an "epic and deeply intimate" (Booklist) mosaic novel that charts the devastating course of the Arctic Plague, an infectious disease that emerges from melting permafrost in 2030 and transforms society.Read it for: realistically flawed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Upright Women Wanted

  Gailey, Sarah,

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  A near-future exploration of identity, written in the style of a pulp western, finds a woman stowing away to escape her arranged marriage to a man who was once engaged to the late best friend she secretly loved.