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- Red Moon
Benjamin Percystandalone novel2013
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On the eve of the emergence of a new and unrecognizable world that will challenge the existence of humanity, a group of people begin to notice they are different from everyone else.
- Only a Monster
series3 books2022
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Only a Monster is Vanessa Len's YA fantasy trilogy: Only a Monster (2022), Never a Hero and Once a Villain. It follows a teenage girl who discovers she comes from a line of time-manipulating 'monsters', the traditional enemies of a lineage of 'heroes', after falling for a boy from the opposing side. The trilogy reframes familiar hero/monster tropes around a contemporary, time-travel fantasy premise.
- The Curse Workers
series3 books2010
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Holly Black's Curse Workers trilogy is set in an alternate America where 'curse work' — magic that harms or transforms through touch — is illegal, enforced through gloves and Prohibition-era-style crime families. It follows Cassel Sharpe, the only non-worker in a family of con artists and workers, as he tries to stay out of his family's schemes despite his own hidden connection to their world. The series runs from White Cat through two further novels.
- WWW Trilogy
series3 books2009
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The WWW Trilogy is a trilogy of science-fiction novels by Canadian science fiction author Robert J. Sawyer. The first book, Wake, was originally serialized in four parts in Analog Science Fiction and Fact from November 2008 to March 2009, published in book form through Ace on April 7, 2009, and was followed by the second book, Watch, on April 6, 2010. Wonder was published in 2011.
- The Great Cities
series3 books2016
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N. K. Jemisin's Great Cities duology imagines that great cities can awaken as living, sentient avatars defending themselves against extradimensional threats. It began as her short story 'The City Born Great' before expanding into The City We Became (2020) — her first novel after completing the Broken Earth trilogy — and its sequel, The World We Make.
- Dark Matter
Blake Crouchstandalone novel2016
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Jason Dessen, college physics professor, husband and father, is kidnapped and taken to a parallel universe where his counterpart had dedicated his life to inventing a method of traveling between an infinity of parallel universes.
- Southern Reach Trilogy
series4 books2014
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The Southern Reach Series is a series of novels by the American author Jeff VanderMeer first published in 2014—Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance, and Absolution. The series takes its name from the secret agency that is central to the plot. In 2013, Paramount Pictures bought the movie rights for the series, and a film adaptation of Annihilation was made with Alex Garland as writer-director. The film was released in 2018. The most recent book in the series, Absolution, was released on 22 October 2024.
- Hush, Hush
series5 books2009
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The Hush, Hush quartet is a series of four novels by Becca Fitzpatrick that follow teenager Nora Grey as she falls in love with the fallen angel Patch and discovers her own angelic heritage. The first book in the series, Hush, Hush, was released on October 13, 2009 through Simon & Schuster, with the final novel in the series, Finale, releasing on October 23, 2012. The series was initially promoted as a trilogy, with later announcements stating that the series would comprise four books.
- The Convergence Saga
series3 books2021
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No Gods, No Monsters opens Cadwell Turnbull's Convergence Saga trilogy with a premise where hidden monsters choose to reveal themselves publicly in search of safety, told through a multi-perspective structure that widens out to a whole community's reaction. The novel folds in questions of social and political unrest alongside identity, power, and community, treating the reveal as a fault line running through ordinary lives. Two further novels, We Are the Crisis and A Ruin, Great and Free, continue the same unfolding story.
- Zoo City
Lauren Beukesstandalone novel2010
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Zoo City is a 2010 science fiction novel by South African author Lauren Beukes. It won the 2011 Arthur C. Clarke Award and the 2010 Kitschies Red Tentacle for best novel. The cover of the British edition of the book was awarded the 2010 BSFA Award for best artwork, and the book itself was shortlisted in the best novel category of the award.
- Legion / Stephen Leeds
series5 books2012
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Legion, or the Stephen Leeds series, is a series of science fiction novellas created by American author Brandon Sanderson. Sanderson authored the first three stories : Legion, first published on August 31, 2012, Legion: Skin Deep in November 2014, and Legion: Lies of the Beholder in September 2018. Death and Faxes, co-authored by Max Epstein, David Pace, and Michael Harkins, was released in June 2022. The books have received favorable reviews.
