2010 Nebula Award Winner-Best Novel

What Happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when said bio-terrorism forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? In The Windup Girl, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi returns to the world of "The Calorie Man"( Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winner, Hugo Award nominee, 2006) and "Yellow Card Man" (Hugo Award nominee, 2007) in order to address these questions. …More

The third book in Le Guin's Annals of the Western Shore series--a riveting companion to "Voices" and "Gifts"--is an epic story of survival and self-discovery that speaks to the power of new beginnings and, most importantly, of hope. …More

National Book Critics Circle Best Recommended Fiction

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay pens an homage to the stylish menace of 1940s noir, in a novel that imagines if Alaska, not Israel, had become the homeland for the Jews after World War II. …More

Winner - 2006 Nebula Award
Thousands of years after an entire colony disappears, antiquities dealer Alex Benedict comes into possession of a cup that seems to be from one of the colony's ships. The discovery raises more questions than answers and draws him into the very heart of danger. …More

2005 Nebula Award Winner
2004 James Tiptree, Jr. Award Winner

Two aliens have wandered Earth for centuries. The Changeling has survived by adopting the forms of many different organisms. The Chameleon destroys anything or anyone that threatens it. Now, a sunken relic that holds the key to their origins calls to them to take them home. …More

Winner - 2004 Hugo Awards
Winner - 2004 Nebula Award
From multiple Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Lois McMaster Bujold comes a sequel to her popular and critically acclaimed The Curse of Chalion--a stunning new epic fantasy that tells of a queen's quest to save her land--and her soul. …More

Winner - 2003 Nebula Award
Thoughtful, poignant, and unforgettable, "The Speed of Dark is a gripping exploration into the world of Lou Arrendale, an autistic man who is offered a chance to try a brand-new experimental "cure" for his condition. Now Lou must decide if he should submit to a surgery that might completely change the way he views the world . . . and the very essence of who he is. …More

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Winner - 2002 Hugo Awards
Winner - 2002 Nebula Award
A master of inventive fiction pens the story of an ex-con who is offered a job as a bodyguard for Mr. Wednesday, a trickster and a rogue. Shadow soon learns that his role in the man's schemes are far more dangerous and dark than he could have ever imagined. …More

Winner - 2001 Nebula Awards
The saga of the Skolian Empire continues. In order to keep the people of her impoverished province from starving, young ruler Kamoj Argali agrees to marry Jax Ironbridge, the boorish and brutal ruler of a prosperous region. Before they are wed, a mysterious stranger from a distant planet sweeps in and forces Kamoj into marriage, throwing her world into chaos. …More

Winner - 2000 Nebula Awards
A "virus hunter" at the Epidemic Intelligence Service has pursued an elusive flu-like disease that strikes down expectant mothers and their offspring. Then a major discovery high in the Alps--the preserved bodies of a prehistoric family--reveals a shocking link: Something that has slept in our genes for millions of years is waking up. …More

Winner - 1999 Nebula Awards
Lauren Olamina's love is divided among her young daughter, her community, and the revelation that led Lauren to found a new faith that teaches "God Is Change". But in the wake of environmental and economic chaos, the U.S. government turns a blind eye to violent bigots who consider the mere existence of a black female leader a threat. And soon Lauren must either sacrifice her child and her followers -- or forsake the religion that can transform human destiny. …More

Winner - 1998 Nebula Awards
Winner - 1998 Hugo Awards
2043 A.D.: The Ngumi War rages. A burned-out soldier and his scientist lover discover a secret that could put the universe back to square one--not a terrifying prospect, but a tempting one. Featured on the "Locus" Recommended Reading list and selected by "Publishers Weekly" as one of the best books of the year. …More

Winner - 1997 Nebula Award
In 17th-century France, King Louis XIV manages to obtain a rare sea monster. The king considers the shrieking creature to be the key to immortality, but for Marie-Josephe de la Croix, it is something much more. The mysterious sea animal's gaze and haunting cries foretell a different future--one in which Marie-Josephe will find herself challenging her most fundamental loyalties. …More

Winner - 1996 Nebula Awards
She awoke in an alley to the splash of rain. She was naked, a foot-long gash in her back was still bleeding, and her identity implant was gone. Lore Van de Oest had been the daughter of one of the world's most powerful families...and now she was nobody, and she had to hide. Then out of the rain walked Spanner, predator and thief, who took her in, cared for her wound, and taught her how to reinvent herself again and again. No one could find Lore now: not the police, not her family, and not the kidnappers who had left her in that alley to die. She had escaped...but the cost of her newfound freedom was crime and deception, and she paid it over and over again, until she had become someone she loathed. Lore had a choice: She could stay in the shadows, stay with Spanner...and risk losing herself forever. Or she could leave Spanner and find herself again by becoming someone else: stealing the identity of a dead woman, taking over her life, and inventing her future. But to start again, Lore required Spanner's talents - Spanner, who needed her and hated her, and who always had a price. And even as Lore agreed to play Spanner's game one final time, she found that there was still the price of being a Van de Oest to be paid. …More

Winner - 1995 Nebula Awards
To test his theories of immortality and life after death, Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of his own personality. The first has all knowledge of physical existence edited out, to simulate life after death. The second is without knowledge of aging or death, to simulate immortality. The third is unmodified, a control. Now they are free. One is a killer. …More