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Comp-Finder Database
Sci-Fi Novels Published 2019–2023
How to Use this Database
Use this database as a starting point for your research. Look at categories and tags that have similarities to your novels (I recommend choosing comps that are under the same age category as your novel), then read the books before you decide whether they are fitting comps. You might also find this article useful: “How to Find the Perfect Comp Titles: A Guide for Querying Writers.”
Note that many novels fall under more than one genre; for example, a book could be a literary horror or a near-future time travel story. Instead of duplicating the titles under both genres, I chose the genre that I thought best matched the book’s summary, and then I added the other genre as a tag.
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Novel Title | Author | Tags | Pub | Subgenre | Age |
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Fractal Noise | Christopher Paolini | small team, space mission, alien tech, thriller, danger | 2023 | Action & Adventure | A |
Jinn-Bot of Shantiport, The | Samit Basu | city, colonist rulers, failed revolutionaries, reality-sharping artifact, science fantasy, humour | 2023 | Action & Adventure | A |
Meru | S.B. Divya | Earthlike planet, adventure, romance, LGBTQ | 2023 | Action & Adventure | A |
Starter Villain | John Scalzi | divorce, supervillain business, war, unionized dolphins, hyper-intelligent spy cats, thriller | 2023 | Action & Adventure | A |
Weaponized | Neal Asher | thriller, adventure, weapons development, colonists | 2023 | Action & Adventure | A |
Wild Massive | Scotto Moore | lies, secrets, humour, multiverse, shapeshifter, genre-bending, weird, adventure, science fantasy | 2023 | Action & Adventure | A |
Kaiju Preservation Society, The | John Scalzi | COVD-19, New York City, alternate dimension, humour | 2022 | Action & Adventure | A |
Mercury Rising | R.W.W. Greene | alternative history, aliens, immortality, 1975, LGBTQ, retro technology, space travel | 2022 | Action & Adventure | A |
Misfit Soldier, The | Michael Mammay | space opera, misfit soldiers, con gone wrong, power armor, quippy dialogue, snarky protagonist, heist | 2022 | Action & Adventure | A |
All-Consuming World, The | Cassandra Khaw | former criminals, rescue mission, secret, A.I., LGBTQ, betrayal, adventure, cyborgs, | 2021 | Action & Adventure | A |
Future Feeling | Joss Lake | dog walker, social media, mysterious dimension, magic, technology, LGBTQ, trans, science fantasy | 2021 | Action & Adventure | A |
Last Watch, The | J. S. Dewes | soldiers, criminal misfits, space opera, survival, fast-paced, collapsing universe | 2021 | Action & Adventure | A |
Light From Uncommon Stars | Ryka Aoki | LGBTQ, trans, aliens, violin prodigies, soul trading, starship captain, interstellar refugee, mother, food, music | 2021 | Action & Adventure | A |
Noor | Nnedi Okorafor | biotechnology, near-future Nigeria, body augmentations, capitalism, climate disaster, POC, cyberpunk | 2021 | Action & Adventure | A |
Remote Control | Nnedi Okorafor | alien artifact, Death, community, female empowerment, fox companion, POC, novella, futuristic Africa, Afrofuturism | 2021 | Action & Adventure | A |
Finna | Nino Cipri | low-wage work, LGBTQ, capitalism, portal to another dimension, multiverse, humour, horror, novella, exes | 2020 | Action & Adventure | A |
Hench | Natalie Zina Walschots | romance, deconstruction of superhero genre, betrayal, revenge, social media, office politics, body horror, dark humour, LGBTQ, bisexual | 2020 | Action & Adventure | A |
Nophek Gloss | Essa Hansen | quest, revenge, aliens, crew of misfits, found family, gender- and neurodiverse characters, reality-warping spaceships, space opera | 2020 | Action & Adventure | A |
Otaku | Chris Kluwe | Miami, virtual world, video game, conspiracy, mystery, romance, RPG fiction | 2020 | Action & Adventure | A |
Pale Light in the Black, A | K.B. Wagers | space opera, competition, secret, found family, mystery, LGBTQ, miliatry | 2020 | Action & Adventure | A |
Repo Virtual | Corey J. White | heist, thief, virtual realities, intergalactic virtual war, first sentient A.I., cyberpunk | 2020 | Action & Adventure | A |
Upright Women Wanted | Sarah Gailey | antifascist, LGBTQ, arranged marriage, future American Southwest, queer librarian, bandits, gunslingers | 2020 | Action & Adventure | A |
Do You Dream of Terra-Two? | Temi Oh | Earth-like planet, astronauts, twenty-year trip, mental health, coming of age, relationships | 2019 | Action & Adventure | A |
Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind, The | Jackson Ford | telekinesis, murder, conspiracy, humourous, thriller | 2019 | Action & Adventure | A |
Paths Between Worlds, The | Paul Antony Jones | car crash, addiction, island, mystery, survival | 2019 | Action & Adventure | A |
Last Gate of the Emperor | Kwame Mbalia, Prince Joel Makonnen | afrofuturist, Ethiopian empire, augmented reality game, monsters, RPG fiction | 2021 | Action & Adventure | MG |
Lion of Mars, The | Jennifer L. Holm | Mars colony, virus, mystery, found family | 2021 | Action & Adventure | MG |
Outlaws Scarlett and Browne, The | Jonathan Stroud | fragmented future England, outlaws, gunfights, monsters, humour, mystery | 2021 | Action & Adventure | MG |
Stowaway | John David Anderson | rare mineral, aliens, intergalactic coalition, war, stranded in space, pirates, family | 2021 | Action & Adventure | MG |
Trouble in the Stars | Sarah Prineas | space chase, shapeshifter on the run, crew of misfits, found family, humour | 2021 | Action & Adventure | MG |
Weird Kid | Greg Van Eekhout | shapeshifting, sinkholes, extraterrestrial substance, mystery, superheroes, friendship | 2021 | Action & Adventure | MG |
Finn and the Intergalactic Lunchbox | Michael Buckley | aliens, robots, wormholes, friendship | 2020 | Action & Adventure | MG |
In the Red | Christopher Swiedler | Mars, colony, anxiety, stolen rover, solar flare, survival, self-esteem, friendship | 2020 | Action & Adventure | MG |
Cog | Greg Van Eekhout | five robots, rescue mission, friendship, morality, humour, courage, dogs | 2019 | Action & Adventure | MG |
Dragon Pearl | Yoon Ha Lee | fox spirits, charm, shapeshifting, mystical object, quest, pirates, ghosts, Korean mythology | 2019 | Action & Adventure | MG |
Last Human, The | Lee Bacon | robots, A.I., humans are extinct, human girl, quest, humour, mystery, morality | 2019 | Action & Adventure | MG |
Leo Gray and the Lunar Eclipse | K.J. Kruk | 2113, robotically-maintained homes, self-flying cars, rocket-building competition, the moon | 2019 | Action & Adventure | MG |
Remarkable Inventions of Walter Mortinson, The | Quinn Sosna-Spear | friendship, small town, unusual inventions, apprenticeship, fish-people, giantess miners, hypnotized honeybees | 2019 | Action & Adventure | MG |
Sal and Gabi Break the Universe | Carlos Hernandez | Cuban, death, grief, retrieve things from other universes, performing arts school, humour | 2019 | Action & Adventure | MG |
Seventh Grade vs. the Galaxy | Joshua S. Levy | school on a spaceship, light-speed engine, aliens, first contact, | 2019 | Action & Adventure | MG |
Star-spun Web, The | Sinéad O'Hart | parallel worlds, orphan, pet tarantula, mysterious man | 2019 | Action & Adventure | MG |
We're Not from Here | Geoff Rodkey | friendship, humour, moving to a new planet, aliens | 2019 | Action & Adventure | MG |
Gearbreakers | Zoe Hana Mikuta | LGBTQ, lesbian, war, giant mechanized weapons, cybernetic enhancement, mechas, | 2023 | Action & Adventure | YA |
Made of Stars | Jenna Voris | thriller, space warfare, romance, prison, secret plot, military, rebels | 2023 | Action & Adventure | YA |
Kindred, The | Alechia Dow | nobles, commoners, assassinations, romance | 2022 | Action & Adventure | YA |
Wilderness of Stars, A | Shea Ernshaw | astronomer, stars, cure, romance, grief, science fantasy | 2022 | Action & Adventure | YA |
Aetherbound | E.K. Johnston | family, interstellar freighter, space station, survival, mutation, bodily autonomy, human trafficking, colonialism | 2021 | Action & Adventure | YA |
City of Shattered Light | Claire Winn | heiress, outlaw, tech empire, manipulative father, uploaded brain, gunslinging smuggler, rogue A.I. | 2021 | Action & Adventure | YA |
Infinity Courts, The | Akemi Dawn Bowman | afterlife, evil A.I., rebels, imprisonment, technology, grief, science fantasy | 2021 | Action & Adventure | YA |
Iron Widow | Xiran Jay Zhao | Chinese history, mecha pilots, giant robots, aliens, vengeance, feminism, LGBTQ, patriarchy, polyamory | 2021 | Action & Adventure | YA |
Rainbow in the Dark | Sean McGinty | identity, depression, game-like world, quests, absurdist humour, mental health, suicide, cience fantasy | 2021 | Action & Adventure | YA |
Victories Greater Than Death | Charlie Jane Anders | clone, beacon, war, aliens, friendship, space battles, humour, destiny, space opera | 2021 | Action & Adventure | YA |
Goddess in the Machine | Lora Beth Johnson | thriller, cryogenic sleep, year 3102, prince, politics, romance, retelling of Sleeping Beauty | 2020 | Action & Adventure | YA |
Rebelwing | Andrea Tang | cybernetic dragon, near-future, Washington, media consumption, personal freedom, war, politics, romance, boarding school, corporations, LGBTQ, POC | 2020 | Action & Adventure | YA |
Sound of Stars, The | Alechia Dow | music, books, aliens, resistance, LGBTQ, rebel librarian, alien commander, genre-bending | 2020 | Action & Adventure | YA |
Aurora Rising | Amie Kaufman,
Jay Kristoff | romance, graduating cadets, first mission, squad of misfits, cryosleep, space opera | 2019 | Action & Adventure | YA |
Dysasters, The | P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast | superpowers, night vision, deadly tornado, genetic manipulation, romance | 2019 | Action & Adventure | YA |
Last of Her Name | Jessica Khoury | rebellion, royal family, murder, politics, Anastasia retelling, | 2019 | Action & Adventure | YA |
Light at the Bottom of the World, The | London Shah | thriller, submersible racer, marathon, mystery, underwater adventure, romance | 2019 | Action & Adventure | YA |
Tarnished Are the Stars | Rosiee Thor | science fantasy, clockwork heart, outlaw, assassin, romance, LGBTQ, asexual, steampunk | 2019 | Action & Adventure | YA |
War Girls | Tochi Onyebuchi | sisters, futuristic Nigeria, 2172, climate change, nuclear disasters, mechs, civil war, freedom | 2019 | Action & Adventure | YA |
Arch-Conspirator | Veronica Roth | retelling of Sophocles's Antigone, last city on Earth, revenge, doom, tyranny, revolution | 2023 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | A |
Deluge, The | Stephen Markley | near-future, literary, ecological crisis, thriller, climate crisis | 2023 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | A |
I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself | Marisa Crane | lyrical, LGBTQ, grief, alcholism, self-loathing, life under surveillance, shadows | 2023 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | A |
Not Alone | Sarah K. Jackson | survival, adventure, microplastic storm, London, suspense, thriller | 2023 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | A |
Thick and the Lean, The | Chana Porter | aspiring chef, cyberthief, kitchen maid, religious town, forbidden food, capitalism, body politics, feminism, LGBTQ | 2023 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | A |
World Running Down | Al Hess | LGBTQ, trans, romance, waselands of Utah, A.I., android, cozy, humourous, social commentary, adventure | 2023 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | A |
Goliath | Tochi Onyebuchi | social commentary, near-future, space colonies, LGBTQ, literary, death, violence, murder, racism, inequality, poverty | 2022 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | A |
Half-Built Garden, A | Ruthanna Emrys | extraterrestrial diplomacy, climate repair, aliens, near-future, first contact, community, LGBTQ | 2022 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | A |
Primitives | Erich Krauss | adventure, thriller, gritty, dying world | 2022 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | A |
Dark Lullaby | Polly Ho-Yen | monitored parenting, infertility crisis, parenthood, thriller, family, social structures, eerie | 2021 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | A |
Firebreak | Nicole Kornher-Stace | near-future, corporations, war game, super soldier, missing girl, LGBTQ, cyberpunk | 2021 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | A |
Past Is Red, The | Catherynne M. Valente | garbagetown, humourous, hope, climate ruin, corporate greed, pop culture nostalgia, lyrical, novella | 2021 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | A |
Beginning at the End, A | Mike Chen | aftermath of a pandemic, suspense, hope, resilience, family, slice-of-life, literary | 2020 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | A |
Book of Koli, The | M.R. Carey | coming of age, climate change, dangerous plants, small village, secret | 2020 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | A |
Human Son, The | Adrian J. Walker | genetic engineering, humanity is extinct, humour, climate crisis, utopian earth | 2020 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | A |
Lakewood | Megan Giddings | class, race, medical experimentation, Michigan, mysterious town, Black people as test subjects, psychological trauma, thriller | 2020 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | A |
Phlebotomist, The | Chris Panatier | near-future, mandatory blood draw, post-war, society segregated by blood type, horrifying secret, thriller, elderly protagonist | 2020 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | A |
Resisters, The | Gish Jen | near-future, A.I., baseball, humour, surveillance state, totalitarianism | 2020 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | A |
Riot Baby | Tochi Onyebuchi | racism, political, POC, sibling love, broken communities, thriller | 2020 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | A |
Space Between Worlds, The | Micaiah Johnson | multiverse, secret, parallel selves, literary, social commentary, LGBTQ, lesbian | 2020 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | A |
City in the Middle of the Night, The | Charlie Jane Anders | colonialism, evolution, smugglers, revolutionaries, pirates, dying planet, bond with a beast, LGBTQ | 2019 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | A |
Lesson, The | Cadwell Turnbull | aliens, research mission, family, Caribbean Islands, European colonization, POC, slavery, colonialism | 2019 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | A |
Permafrost | Alastair Reynolds | time travel, climate, Arctic Circle, experiment, thriller, post-apocalyptic, scientists | 2019 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | A |
Vigilance | Robert Jackson Bennett | dark, gun violence, near-future, reality game show, novella | 2019 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | A |
Beautiful Blue World | Suzanne LaFleur | war, food shortages, bombings, army recruiting children, school | 2023 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | MG |
It's the End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit | Justin A. Reynolds | summer break, friendship, power goes out, missing families, humour | 2022 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | MG |
Last Cuentista, The | Donna Barba Higuera | storytelling, traveling to a new planet, Mexican folklore, family, community, oral history | 2021 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | MG |
Middler, The | Kirsty Applebaum | boundary that protects from the outside world, war, isolated town, forbidden friendship, resistance | 2019 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | MG |
Under This Forgetful Sky | Lauren Yero | environment, romance, inequity, political corruption, Caribbean & Latin America, star-crossed lovers | 2023 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | YA |
All That's Left in the World | Erik J. Brown | adventure, survival, LGBTQ, romance, friendship, deadly pathogen, secrets | 2022 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | YA |
Alone Out Here | Riley Redgate | near-future, 2072, volcanic eruption, space fleet, apocalyptic, adventure, action, survival, thriller | 2022 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | YA |
Hell Followed with Us | Andrew Joseph White | LGBTQ, trans, cult, autism, bioweapon, mystery, suspense, adventure, romance, colonialism | 2022 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | YA |
Q, The | Amy Tintera | quarantine zone, action, adventure, post-pandemic, Texas, kidnaping, thriller | 2022 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | YA |
Electric Kingdom, The | David Arnold | genre bending, post-apocalyptic New England, philosophical questions, time travel, action, lyrical | 2021 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | YA |
Fragile Remedy | Maria Ingrande Mora | LGBTQ, gay, genetic engineering, fatal lung rot, quarantine, terrorists | 2021 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | YA |
Ones We're Meant to Find, The | Joan He | climate change, sisterhood, lost memories, eco-city | 2021 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | YA |
Rise of the Red Hand | Olivia Chadha | South Asian culture, dystopia, utopia, societal inequity, digital surveillance, climate change, hacker, cyberpunk? | 2021 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | YA |
We Light Up the Sky | Lilliam Rivera | Latinx, POC, Los Angeles, grief, loss, injustice, dystopian, racism | 2021 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | YA |
Agnes at the End of the World | Kelly McWilliams | survival, cult, viral apocalypse, action, adventure, religion | 2020 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | YA |
Sanctuary | Paola Mendoza, Abby Sher | near-future, 2032, undocumented immigrant, small town, Vermont | 2020 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | YA |
Boy and his Dog at the End of the World, A | C.A. Fletcher | remote island, dog, adventure, survival, family, loyalty | 2019 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | YA |
Dealing in Dreams | Lilliam Rivera | action, adventure, societal roles, gender, equality, sisterhood, all-girl crew, gritty, Latinx | 2019 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | YA |
Internment | Samira Ahmed | near-future, internment camp for Muslim Americans, revolution | 2019 | Apocalyptic & Dystopian | YA |
Rose/House | Arkady Martine | novella, haunted house, A.I., mystery, murder, thriller, creepy | 2023 | Horror | A |
Scourge Between Stars, The | Ness Brown | generation ship, failed colony, interstellar space, murder, mystery, thriller, dark, monster, LGBTQ | 2023 | Horror | A |
Dead Silence | S.A. Barnes | dark, lost luxury cruiser, wreckage, distress signal, salvage, mystery, atmospheric, thriller | 2022 | Horror | A |
Leech | Hiron Ennes | identity, heredity, bodily autonomy, gothic, atmospheric, doctor, parasite, grotesque biology | 2022 | Horror | A |
Dead Space | Kali Wallace | investigation, murder mystery, space station, thriller, mining company, morally gray choices | 2021 | Horror | A |
Night Train | David Quantick | train, monsters, dark, witty, strange, snarky dialogue, mystery | 2020 | Horror | A |
Luminous Dead, The | Caitlin Starling | psychological thriller, space exploration, caver, foreign planet, expedition, survival | 2019 | Horror | A |
Outside, The | Ada Hoffmann | space opera, A.I. gods, autistic scientist, energy drive, post-human angels, monsters, morality | 2019 | Horror | A |
Salvaged | Madeleine Roux | adrift in space, alien parasite, dark, thriller, bioengineering, space janitor, survival | 2019 | Horror | A |
Walking to Aldebaran | Adrian Tchaikovsky | lost astronaut, novella, alien labyrinth, psychological horror, aliens | 2019 | Horror | A |
Eat Your Heart Out | Kelly deVos | zombies, weight-loss camp, blizzard, Arizona, mystery, horror, body positivity, humour, thriller | 2021 | Horror | YA |
Loop, The | Ben Oliver | hi-tech prison, dark, thriller, A.I., government, dystopia | 2020 | Horror | YA |
Wilder Girls | Rory Power | quarantine, island boarding school, mystery, LGBTQ, dystopia | 2019 | Horror | YA |
Flux | Jinwoo Chong | corporate culture, time travel, neo-noir, secrets, experimental technology, grief, Asian identity in America, thriller | 2023 | Literary | A |
Museum of Human History, The | Rebekah Bergman | medical advances, biotech, philosophy, memory, never aging, humanity | 2023 | Literary | A |
On Earth as It Is on Television | Emily Jane | weird, sweet, humorous, contemporary, consumerism, family, humanity | 2023 | Literary | A |
How High We Go in the Dark | Sequoia Nagamatsu | aftermath of a climate plague, near-future, grief, archaeologist, Arctic Circle, secrets, ancient virus, theme park for terminally ill children, post-apocalyptic | 2022 | Literary | A |
Sleepwalk | Dan Chaon | near-future, mystery, thriller, dark humour, dystopia, fatherhood | 2022 | Literary | A |
Appleseed | Matt Bell | environmental, ecological, natural resources, genetic engineering, food science, apocalyptic | 2021 | Literary | A |
How to Mars | David Ebenbach | weird, witty, living on Mars, cabin fever, humourous, novella, social media, reality TV | 2021 | Literary | A |
Klara and the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro | A.I., loneliness, mortality, connection | 2021 | Literary | A |
Skyward Inn | Aliya Whiteley | alien contact, conflict, identity, community, post-apocalypse, philosophical, colonialism | 2021 | Literary | A |
Hierarchies, The | Ros Anderson | synthetic woman, consent, sentient robot, near-future, dark humour, A.I., dystopia | 2020 | Literary | A |
Mother Code, The | Carole Stivers | motherhood, near-future, 2049, genetically engineered children, robots, A.I., robots | 2020 | Literary | A |
New Wilderness, The | Diane Cook | dystopian, alternative history, motherhood, climate change, pollution, horror | 2020 | Literary | A |
Seep, The | Chana Porter | benevolent aliens, LGBTQ, trans, alcoholism, grief, utopia | 2020 | Literary | A |
Vanished Birds, The | Simon Jimenez | space opera, ship captain, mute child, found family, epic, lyrical | 2020 | Literary | A |
Dreamers, The | Karen Thompson Walker | sleep-inducing illness, college town, family, quarantine, dystopia | 2019 | Literary | A |
Famous Men Who Never Lived | K. Chess | New York City, alternate United States, nuclear war, eerie, alternate history | 2019 | Literary | A |
Machines Like Me | Ian McEwan | synthetic humans, identity, alternative 1982 London, A.I., romance | 2019 | Literary | A |
Mimicking of Known Successes, The | Malka Older | murder, sapphic romance, LGBTQ, lesbian, cozy, Jupiter, human colony, academia, inhabitable earth | 2023 | Mystery | A |
Terraformers, The | Annalee Newitz | terraforming, environment, ecological, mystery, action, corporate ownership, LGBTQ | 2023 | Mystery | A |
Braking Day | Adam Oyebanji | generation ship, engineer-in-training, secrets, A.I., adventure, visions, suspense | 2022 | Mystery | A |
Rosebud | Paul Cornell | novella, sentient digital beings, A.I., survey ship, mystery, dystopia | 2022 | Mystery | A |
Sleepless, The | Victor Manibo | murder investigation, memory loss, biohacking, LGBTQ, medical experimentation | 2022 | Mystery | A |
Spare Man, The | Mary Robinette Kowal | mystery, inventor, space liner, murder, comedy-of-manners | 2022 | Mystery | A |
Station Eternity | Mur Lafferty | murder, amateur detective, sentient space station, aliens, banter, suspense | 2022 | Mystery | A |
Album of Dr. Moreau, The | Daryl Gregory | murder mystery, human-animal hybrid vocal group, boy band, detective, Las Vegas, retelling of H.G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau | 2021 | Mystery | A |
Far from the Light of Heaven | Tade Thompson | colony ship, murder, space travel, politics, aliens, politicians, androids, rogue A.I., thriller, afrofuturism | 2021 | Mystery | A |
Psalm for the Wild-Built, A | Becky Chambers | self-aware robots, tea monk, philisophical, quiet, novella, cozy, LGBTQ, cozy, A.I. | 2021 | Mystery | A |
Unnatural Life | Erin K. Wagner | A.I., prejudice, novella, robot civil rights, prison system, human rights | 2020 | Mystery | A |
Infinite Lives of Maisie Day, The | Christopher Edge | sisters, scientific theory, infinite universe, black holes, math, science | 2019 | Mystery | MG |
No Beauties or Monsters | Tara Goedjen | missing friend, secrets, desert, military base, monsters, horror | 2021 | Mystery | YA |
Feed Them Silence | Lee Mandelo | novella, near-future, wolves, neurological interface, obsession with work, environmentalism, LGBTQ, lesbian | 2023 | Near-Future | A |
More Perfect | Temi Oh | retelling of the Greek myth of Eurydice and Orpheus, near-future London, social media, augmented reality | 2023 | Near-Future | A |
Ten Percent Thief, The | Lavanya Lakshminarayan | revolution, mathematical equation that determines the world's elite, class, society, power structures, future India, virtual world | 2023 | Near-Future | A |
January Fifteenth | Rachel Swirsky | Universal Basic Income, near-future, novella, slice-of-life, LGBTQ | 2022 | Near-Future | A |
Stranded, The | Sarah Daniels | cruise ship turned refugee camp, action, thriller, suspense, post-apocalyptic war | 2022 | Near-Future | A |
Constance | Matthew FitzSimmons | cloning, suspense & thriller, missing memories, mysterious death, dystopia | 2021 | Near-Future | A |
End of Men, The | Christina Sweeney-Baird | virus strikes male population, suspense & thriller, 2025, Scotland, global pandemic, political | 2021 | Near-Future | A |
Termination Shock | Neal Stephenson | global warming, adventure, action, charming dialogue, climate, suspense & thriller | 2021 | Near-Future | A |
Ministry for the Future, The | Kim Stanley Robinson | climate change, environment, geoengineering projects | 2020 | Near-Future | A |
Test, The | Sylvain Neuvel | immigration, dystopian, citizenship test, novella, social commentary | 2019 | Near-Future | A |
Ace Takes Flight | Cory McCarthy | action & adventure, bionic enhancement, augmentation, A.I., wings, LGBTQ | 2022 | Near-Future | MG |
Last Gamer Standing | Katie Zhao | RPG fiction, gaming, esports, VR battle royale, tournament, blackmail, misogyny | 2021 | Near-Future | MG |
Cleo Porter and the Body Electric | Jake Burt | hermetically sealed housing, post-pandemic, humour, nefarious drones, quarantine, dystopian | 2020 | Near-Future | MG |
Half Life | Lillian Clark | action & adventureclones, experimental study, near-future, suspense, self-worth, romance, wit, banter, family, friendship | 2020 | Near-Future | YA |
Catfishing on CatNet | Naomi Kritzer | suspense & thriller, online privacy, A.I., social networks, humour, inclusivity, found family, LGBTQ | 2019 | Near-Future | YA |
Frontier | Grace Curtis | LGBTQ, lesbian, humour, lawless society, sheriff, western, post-apocalyptic, adventure | 2023 | Romance | A |
The Road to Roswell | Connie Willis | alien invasion, conspiracy, humour, alien abduction, adventure | 2023 | Romance | A |
Hunt the Stars | Jessie Mihalik | bounty hunter, found family, steamy, space opera, adventure, heist, war, politics | 2022 | Romance | A |
Reset | Sarina Dahlan | dystopia, memory wipes, postapocalyptic, Buddhist philosophy, controlled society | 2021 | Romance | A |
Winter's Orbit | Everina Maxwell | space oepra, royalty, empire, arranged marriage, conspiracy | 2021 | Romance | A |
Nightchaser | Amanda Bouchet | captain, ragtag crew, space opera, thieves | 2019 | Romance | A |
Polaris Rising | Jessie Mihalik | space opera, adventure, princess, outlaw soldier, arranged marriage, steamy | 2019 | Romance | A |
This is How You Lose the Time War | Amal El-Mohtar,
Max Gladstone | LGBTQ, epistolary, wordplay, time-traveling rivals, agents of war | 2019 | Romance | A |
Half-Life of Love, The | Brianna Bourne | romance, death, time left to live | 2023 | Romance | YA |
Stars Between Us, The | Cristin Terrill | barmaid on a struggling planet, mysterious benefactor, bombings, action, space opera, mystery | 2022 | Romance | YA |
Darkness Outside Us, The | Eliot Schrefer | rescue mission, alone in space, LGBTQ, gay, thriller, suspense, mystery | 2021 | Romance | YA |
Girls at the Edge of the World | Laura Brooke Robson | apocalyptic flood, royal court, science fantasy, revenge, LGBTQ, lesbian | 2021 | Romance | YA |
Crownchasers | Rebecca Coffindaffer | latinx, genre-bending, Mexican American teen, immigration, folklore, aliens, family | 2020 | Romance | YA |
Crier's War | Nina Varela | LGBTQ, lesbian, automaton, betrothal, science fantasy, alchemy | 2019 | Romance | YA |
Weight of the Stars, The | K. Ancrum | LGBTQ, lesbian, POC, micro-fiction chapters, friendship, price of space exploration | 2019 | Romance | YA |
Infinity Gate | M. R. Carey | A.I., political, alternate realities, scientist, environmental collapse, dying planet, interdimensional travel, war | 2023 | Space Opera | A |
Some Desperate Glory | Emily Tesh | LGBTQ, lesbian, war, found family, space station, adventure, indoctrination, gender politics, fascism | 2023 | Space Opera | A |
Splinter in the Sky, The | Kemi Ashing-Giwa | tea expert, political prisoner, spy, empire, romance, POC, political oppression, adventure | 2023 | Space Opera | A |
Translation State | Ann Leckie | mystery, adventure, translator, aliens, diplomat, mechanic, political, philosophical, LGBTQ | 2023 | Space Opera | A |
Where Peace Is Lost | Valerie Valdes | post-war, refugee, war machine, automaton, adventure | 2023 | Space Opera | A |
Genesis of Misery, The | Neon Yang | science fantasy, space battles, politics, LGBTQ, prophecy, moon colony, empire, holy mech, Joan of Arc retelling, giant robots | 2022 | Space Opera | A |
Red Scholar's Wake, The | Aliette de Bodard | bot maker, data analyst, mother, scavenger, pirates, sentient ship, romance, politics, arranged marriage, Vietnamese culture | 2022 | Space Opera | A |
Stars Undying, The | Emery Robin | empire, betrayal, LGBTQ, inspired by Roman and Egyptian empires, civil war, twins, computer with the soul of a god | 2022 | Space Opera | A |
To Each This World | Julie E. Czerneda | long lost sleeper ships, aliens, first contact, LGBTQ | 2022 | Space Opera | A |
Artifact Space | Miles Cameron | aliens, military, interstellar merchant ship, adventure, mystery | 2021 | Space Opera | A |
Light Chaser | Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell | explorers, A.I., action & adventure, romance, empire, saved memories | 2021 | Space Opera | A |
Persephone Station | Stina Leicht | backwater planet, corporation, bar, criminal misfits, LGBTQ, amoral character, genetic engineering | 2021 | Space Opera | A |
Shards of Earth | Adrian Tchaikovsky | adventure, enhanced humans, gangsters, cults, governments, post-war | 2021 | Space Opera | A |
Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters | Aimee Ogden | gene-editing, war, plague, mercenary, politics, bureaucracy, LGBTQ, romance, fairy tale, novella | 2021 | Space Opera | A |
Bonds of Brass | Emily Skrutskie | pilot, galactic empire, heir, military academy, assassination, romance, LGBTQ, gay, adventure | 2020 | Space Opera | A |
First Sister, The | Linden A. Lewis | social commentary, thriller, LGBTQ, non-binary, colonization, race, gender, romance | 2020 | Space Opera | A |
Hella | David Gerrold | survival, colonists, refugees, politics, alien ecology, LGBTQ | 2020 | Space Opera | A |
House of Styx, The | Derek Künsken | quantum evolution, Venus, acid rain, storms, fractured humanity, family, gender identity, LGBTQ, mental health | 2020 | Space Opera | A |
Seven Devils | L.R. Lam and Elizabeth May | feminist, resistance fighters, empire, spaceship, infiltration, LGBTQ, lesbian | 2020 | Space Opera | A |
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars | Christopher Paolini | alien relic, survey mission, uncolonized planet, war, first contact, aliens | 2020 | Space Opera | A |
Unconquerable Sun | Kate Elliott | adventure, battles, gender-spun Alexander the Great, princess, noble houses, treachery, LGBTQ | 2020 | Space Opera | A |
Alliance Rising | C.J. Cherryh, Jane S. Fancher | space stations, factions, battles, aliens | 2019 | Space Opera | A |
Ancestral Night | Elizabeth Bear | adventure, salvager, aliens, gender, LGBTQ, ancient technology, galaxy-spanning civilization | 2019 | Space Opera | A |
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