Ancillary Justice
Ann Leckie
The first in Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch series introduces Breq, an AI who once inhabited a starship and many of it’s formerly-human crew.
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Ancillary Sword
Ann Leckie
The second of Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch series follows Breq as she’s given command of a ship—her first since she was herself a ship, before the Lord of the Radch destroyed it.
Ancillary Mercy
Ann Leckie
The conclusion of Ann Leckie’s Imperial Radch series is more madcap than the preceding books, and fiercely satisfying.
Aurora
Kim Stanley Robinson
Aurora follows a generational space ship as it travels to a far away solar system in search of a planet that can be safely terraformed.
The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
The first book of “The Broken Earth” trilogy, The Fifth Season tells of a world routinely undone by huge, world ending earthquakes.
The Obelisk Gate
N. K. Jemisin
The second book in Jemisin’s Broken Earth series continues the story of Essun, now trying to survive and find her daughter during what may be the last season of the world.
The Stone Sky
N. K. Jemisin
The third and final book in Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy focuses on Essun’s daughter—who has inherited her mother’s extraordinary abilities but with little of the training.
The Inheritance Trilogy
N. K. Jemisin
This is an epic of (literally) Greek proportions, as it concerns a group of gods and their godling children as they love and fight among themselves and their human creations.
The Raven Tower
Ann Leckie
The main character of this book is a stone. A literal stone. Well, a god in the form of a stone, but a stone nonetheless.
The City We Became
N. K. Jemisin
This latest tome from N. K. Jemisin tells the story of New York—specifically, of the six people who must become the city of New York in order to save themselves and their city from destruction.
The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley Robinson
Robinson writes science fiction that aspires to be a New Yorker essay. This is not entirely bad.