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  • Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

    Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 65 ratings
    It has a dark past – one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot”. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more.Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A” stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue...
  • Wool 5 - The Stranded by Hugh Howey

    Wool 5 - The Stranded by Hugh Howey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    In July of 2011, a short story named WOOL was quietly released into the vast wilds of the Kindle Store. I never marketed this novelette; I failed to mention it on my website. What happened next was remarkable: People started reading it, and reviewing it, and talking about it.There was never any intention to create a series...
  • 薄雾 Mist by 微风几许, 微風幾許

    薄雾 Mist by 微风几许, 微風幾許

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hyperthymesia. Those with this condition can remember every detail of their lives from something as significant as the world’s turning point to something as small and as insignificant as a minor fleeting thought. They cannot forget and their thirst for knowledge allows them to be considered a genius in some senses.Legend has it that Ji Yushi was this kind of genius...
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    lgbtq  dystopia  dark  suspense  romance  sci-fi  time-travel  mystery
  • First Against the Wall by Manna Francis

    First Against the Wall by Manna Francis

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Who is leading the rabble to victory? Toreth shifted against the wall, trying to get comfortable. Between bruises and handcuffs, he didn't have much success. On the first day, in the first cell, the lights had been on, the water dispenser working, and the prisoner feeding schedule still running. Then the lights went out, and things had gone steadily downhill from there...
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    crime  dark  dystopia  lgbtq  suspense  abuse  action-adventure  adult
  • Execution by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Execution by Alexander Gordon Smith

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The whole world has become a prison, and Alfred Furnace is its master. Monsters rule the streets, beasts of pure fury that leave nothing but murder and madness in their wake. Those who do not die are turned, becoming slaves to Furnace's reign of cruelty. It is a war to end all wars, one that will leave the planet in ruins. I am a monster too. I am one of Alfred Furnace's children...
  • Quantum Roots by Kyle Keyes

    Quantum Roots by Kyle Keyes

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Federal agents, Alexis Grumman and Jeremy Wade track down a current day vigilante, whose fingerprints match those of a Korean War veteran. Author Kyle Keyes uses characters from two previous novels, to promote a theory that particle energy formats with a quantum root system, that can bypass time and space...
  • Mist by 微风几许

    Mist by 微风几许

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    yperthymesia. Those with this condition can remember every detail of their lives from something as significant as the world’s turning point to something as small and as insignificant as a minor fleeting thought. They cannot forget and their thirst for knowledge allows them to be considered a genius in some senses.Legend has it that Ji Yushi was this kind of genius...
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    lgbtq  dystopia  dark  suspense  romance  sci-fi  mystery  time-travel
  • A Town Called Discovery by R.R. Haywood, Carl Prekopp

    A Town Called Discovery by R.R. Haywood, Carl Prekopp

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A new time-travel thriller from Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Amazon and Audible best-selling author R. R. Haywood. Creator of the smash-hit time-travel series Extracted and the UK's number one horror series The Undead. A man falls from the sky. He has no memory. He has no sense of self...
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    dark  dystopia  suspense  action-adventure  adult  ai  audiobook  book
  • Control by Manna Francis

    Control by Manna Francis

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Power Writes Its Own RulesGaining it, keeping it, or losing it, control is more than just a game--it's a critical tool for survival. No more so than in the Administration, where the Investigation and Interrogation Division's Val Toreth faces professional and personal hazards every day...
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    crime  dark  dystopia  lgbtq  suspense  abuse  action-adventure  adult
  • 默读 by Priest

    默读 by Priest

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
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    lgbtq  suspense  dark  crime  romance  mystery  fiction  contemporary
  • Quis Custodiet by Manna Francis

    Quis Custodiet by Manna Francis

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Where are all the good guys?No protests, no bombings, no subversion. Is it possible that in one part of the European Administration at least, almost all the citizens are happy with their lot in life? It seems unlikely...
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    crime  dark  dystopia  lgbtq  suspense  abuse  action-adventure  adult
  • Angel City Blues by Jeff Edwards

    Angel City Blues by Jeff Edwards

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Los Angeles: 2065 A wealthy young woman vanishes from her high-security apartment without leaving a single strand of DNA behind. No trace of the victim’s disappearance is recorded on any of the building’s many cameras or security sensors. Her apartment’s memory cores have been destroyed beyond any hope of recovery...
  • The Sinner and the Liar by Alice Winters

    The Sinner and the Liar by Alice Winters

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sin is a hard man caught in a crumbling city filled with crime. After losing the love of his life, Sin feels like he has nothing left to live for. Drifting through life, he takes on mercenary jobs by day and drinks away the memories of a happier time at night. Life has no color and little direction until he saves a gorgeous young man from a vicious attack...
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    crime  dark  dystopia  lgbtq  suspense  abuse  action-adventure  adult
  • Lane: A Case For Willows And Lane by Peter Grainger

    Lane: A Case For Willows And Lane by Peter Grainger

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    “So I thought I might take up para-gliding. You know, buy one on eBay and just jump off the cliff one morning.” Emily Willows is middle-aged, widowed, wealthy and bored. When she makes those flippant remarks to her son over coffee one Friday, she has no inkling that within a few hours she will be facing the most terrifying situation of her life...
  • The Churn by James S.A. Corey

    The Churn by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author James S.A. Corey...Before his trip to the stars, before the Rocinante, Amos Burton's was confined to a Baltimore where crime paid you or killed you. Unless the authorities got to you first.Set in the hard-scrabble solar system of Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War, Abaddon's Gate and the upcoming Cibola Burn, Beloved of Broken Things deepens James S. A...
  • Operation Sherlock by Bruce Coville

    Operation Sherlock by Bruce Coville

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When their scientist parents are assigned to a top secret project on a small, remote island, the five members of the A.I. Gang have to come along, and find themselves trying to stop a spy from destroying the project...
  • Vanquished by S.E. Green

    Vanquished by S.E. Green

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One island. Seven deadly sins.*Abducted from their life in Miami, Valerie and her sister wake up in a secret society run by the world's most powerful people. Now "property" of a sadistic tyrant, Valerie joins other captives who are forced to compete in gladiator style fights and to participate in the elite's deviant fantasies...
  • The Benders by Katie French

    The Benders by Katie French

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The third book in the award-winning, best-selling dystopian series. They’ve escaped the Breeders. They’ve broken out of the Citadel. Now, after all they’ve been through, Riley, Clay, and Ethan know one thing for sure: nothing tastes sweeter than freedom. And no one can rest easy with Auntie Bell in bondage. The group journeys home to rescue her and liberate Clay’s town from the cruel Warden...
  • Outbreak Chaos by Boris Bacic

    Outbreak Chaos by Boris Bacic

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Held in captivity by an evil group, Heather must find a way to save her sister. She’ll learn the hard way that the group doesn’t let people leave without heavy consequences.After narrowly escaping death, James and Angela find refuge in Krista’s house. They think they’re safe for the night. They’re dead wrong, and they realize it too late when they hear scratching inside the closet...
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    dystopia  crime  suspense  dark  horror  zombies  apocalyptic  sci-fi
  • Summer Frost by Blake Crouch, N.K. Jemisin

    Summer Frost by Blake Crouch, N.K. Jemisin

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    A video game developer becomes obsessed with a willful character in her new project, in a mind-bending exploration of what it means to be human by the New York Times bestselling author of Recursion.Maxine was made to do one thing: die...
  • A Fire in the Sun by George Alec Effinger

    A Fire in the Sun by George Alec Effinger

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Marid Audran has become everything he once despised. Not so long ago, he was a hustler in the Budayeen, an Arabian ghetto in a Balkanized future Earth. Back then, as often as not, he didn't have the money to buy himself a drink. But he had his independence.Now Marid works for Friedlander Bey, "godfather" of the Budayeen, a man whose power stretches across a shattered, crumbling world...
  • Naked by Francine Pascal

    Naked by Francine Pascal

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I’ve been stripped of a home. Stripped of a family. Stripped of a life. I have almost nothing left to lose.Except the one I love most...
  • Fractured Innocence by Julia Crane

    Fractured Innocence by Julia Crane

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    *Trigger Warning 17+ due to sexual gritty topic and language. Kaitlyn and Erik are sent on a mission to track down Vance Dasvoik, a ruthless monster. His latest thrill--abducting and selling young women. Vance's current victim: Aaliyah, a seventeen-year-old who never imagined walking her brother home from school one evening would change her life forever...
  • The Culling by Ramona Finn

    The Culling by Ramona Finn

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    What happens to a girl trained as a executioner, who finds out her life is a lie?In a solar system where The Authority decides who lives and who dies, only one of their own executioners can stop them.Glade Io is a trained killer...
  • Corpora Delicti by Manna Francis

    Corpora Delicti by Manna Francis

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Wealth Is the Only RealityOn the surface, stability has returned to Europe. According to all the official metrics released to news feeds, the Administration and the corporations are stronger and more united than ever. Only in the most secret of government surveillance departments and corporate security divisions would anyone suggest otherwise...
  • Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon

    Lucky 7 by Rae D. Magdon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Elena Nevares is on the run. She’s a jacker, someone who connects to virtual reality with their brain, and everyone else on her crew was murdered during a mission gone wrong. Sasha Young is planning a rescue. She’s a handler, a team leader whose crew has been scattered by an evil corporation: Axys Generations...
  • Dome City Blues by Jeff Edwards

    Dome City Blues by Jeff Edwards

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For fans of William Gibson, Phillip K. Dick, and Jak Koke…Los Angeles: 2063David Stalin was one of the best detectives in the business, running head-to-head with data-jackers, organ thieves, and the tech-enhanced gangs who ruled the shadowy streets of Los Angeles...
  • In the Blink of an Eye by Tricia Owens

    In the Blink of an Eye by Tricia Owens

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sequel to Fearless Leader.Lieutenant Black, the young, driven leader of the Special Forces team JC2, has reluctantly brought the sexy and distracting empath, Calyx Starr, onto his team. To Black's dismay, he finds himself fending off not only Starr's relentless flirtations but also his growing curiosity about Black's past...
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    crime  dark  dystopia  lgbtq  suspense  abuse  action-adventure  adult
  • Blood & Circuses by Manna Francis

    Blood & Circuses by Manna Francis

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It's set to be a busy autumn in New London and beyond. With the ripples of the revolt still running through the European Administration, Val Toreth is slowly settling into the new flat he shares with Keir Warrick. But on orders from the very highest levels of the Administration, Toreth finds himself leaving his regular beat far behind and heading over the Atlantic to Washington D.C...
  • The Organ Scrubber by Jason Werbeloff

    The Organ Scrubber by Jason Werbeloff

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Welcome to the Bubble, where orphans are used for spare parts, and transplanting organs is like changing a pair of socks.They harvested Daniel’s body when he was a child, leaving him with cheap cybernetic replacements. Now that he's grown, his body is failing. The gears in his knee grind, his synthetic cornea weeps, and his 3D-printed lungs spasm in winter.Daniel needs the organs he was born with...
  • Rath's Trial by Piers Platt

    Rath's Trial by Piers Platt

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Rath thought that defeating the Janus Group and stealing back his hard-earned fortune might help ease his guilty conscience. But when he returns to the planet Scapa to find the woman he loves, his past crimes finally catch up to him. And the police aren't Rath's only concern: someone's put a price on his head. Rath will need to figure out who his new enemy is if he wants to stay alive...
  • The Battle for Black by Tricia Owens

    The Battle for Black by Tricia Owens

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two men from vastly different backgrounds can’t fight their attraction to each other despite the forces that seek to tear them apart...
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    crime  dark  dystopia  lgbtq  suspense  abuse  action-adventure  adult
  • Genius: The Revolution by Leopoldo Gout

    Genius: The Revolution by Leopoldo Gout

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Three teen geniuses from diverse backgrounds must take down an online terrorist ring, rescue an imprisoned father, and prepare for their final showdown with a misguided mastermind in this third and final book in the Genius YA trilogy by Leopoldo Gout.How do we stop him? We beat him at his own game. Painted Wolf: Mysterious activist blogger and strategist from China...
  • Burnout by Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant

    Burnout by Sean Platt, Johnny B. Truant

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cutter Dunn is a ghost. Unchipped and unregistered he exists as a nonperson, living off-the-grid, unrecognized by the facial recognition software built into every smart glass device that provides everyone with everything they want and need. According to the official system, he doesn't even exist...
  • Мова by Віктар Марціновіч

    Мова by Віктар Марціновіч

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    «Мова» – другі беларускамоўны раман Марціновіча пасля «Сцюдзёнага выраю». «У “Мове” я паспрабаваў сабраць у незвычайным сюжэце маё разуменне багажу праблем, звязаных з нашай ідэнтычнасцю, з культурай, мовай і гісторыяй. З тутэйшасцю, з правінцыйнасцю, з гатоўнасцю адмовіцца ад свайго», – кажа аўтар...
  • Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis

    Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This cozy debut science fiction novel tells a story of misfits, rebels, found family—and a mystery that spans the starsWelcome to the Grand Abeona home of the finest food, the sweetest service, and the very best views the galaxy has to offer. All year round it moves from planet to planet, system to system, pampering guests across the furthest reaches of the milky way...
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    lgbtq  dystopia  crime  cyberpunk  sci-fi  mystery  fiction  cozy
  • Dissolution by Nicholas Binge

    Dissolution by Nicholas Binge

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A woman dives into her husband's memories to uncover a decades-old feud threatening reality itself in this staggering technothriller from the bestselling author of Ascension.Maggie Webb has lived the last decade caring for elderly husband, Stanley, as memory loss gradually erases all the beautiful moments they created together. It's the loneliest she's ever felt in her life...
  • Pollen by Jeff Noon

    Pollen by Jeff Noon

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The sweet death of Coyote, master taxi driver, was only the first. Soon people are sneezing and dying all over Manchester. Telekinetic cop Sybil Jones knows that, like Coyote, they died happy - but even a happy death can be a murder. As exotic blooms begin to flower all over the city, the pollen count is racing towards 2000 and Sybil is running out of time...
  • Beauty Sleep by Kathryn Evans

    Beauty Sleep by Kathryn Evans

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Who am I? What am I? When am I?Laura can't remember who she is. But the rest of the world knows. Because Laura is famous - a dying girl who was frozen until she could be cured. A real-life Sleeping Beauty...
  • Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan

    Woken Furies by Richard K. Morgan

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    This is high action, ideas driven noir SF of the highest order. Morgan has already established himself as an SF author of global significance.Takeshi Kovacs has come home. Home to Harlan's World. An ocean planet with only 5 percent of its landmass poking above the dangerous and unpredictable seas...
  • Human++ by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires

    Human++ by Dima Zales, Anna Zaires

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Dima Zales, an intense new techno-thriller that pushes the limits of what it means to be human. With billions in the bank and my own venture capital firm, I’m living the American dream. My only problem? A car accident that leaves my mother with memory problems...
  • Tears by Francine Pascal

    Tears by Francine Pascal

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    I am fearless. I am not afraid of pain…But I can still feel it...
  • Out Of Time by Ernesto H. Lee

    Out Of Time by Ernesto H. Lee

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Out Of Time, is the first in a series of Novels from author Ernesto H Lee, and is the first part of a two part story that introduces the reader to Detective Sean McMillan. McMillan has a unique ability to travel back in time through the medium of his dreams, so when he is assigned to a cold case team, finding evidence and solving crimes should be a foregone conclusion...
  • Zero Hour by Jordan Castillo Price

    Zero Hour by Jordan Castillo Price

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In a world where life is disposable, two men fight to escape oppression and find the truth…together. Ernest just turned thirty. It’s time for retirement, freedom from the tedious drudgery of his job as a data clerk. Time to emerge from his pod and explore parts of the city he’s never seen before—to meet some actual people. And at the end of the month? Time to die...
  • Nymphomation by Jeff Noon

    Nymphomation by Jeff Noon

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Set both in a real and imaginary Manchester, Jeff Noon's story concerns a revolutionary lottery game that is engulfing the city in a tide of gambling fever. As a group of mathematics students look at the mind-numbing probabilities involved, they soon find more sinister realities...
  • House of the Sun by Nigel Findley

    House of the Sun by Nigel Findley

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The kingdom of Hawaii is a tropical playground with a sinister underside. Dirk Montgomery, former Lone Star cop turned shadowrunner, must stay one step ahead of the factions battling to control the islands--the megacorps, the government, the rebels and the yazuka, not to mention the dragons, elves, new friends and old enemies...
  • Android: Golem by Mel Odom

    Android: Golem by Mel Odom

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a talented New Angeles Detective wakes up in bed with a woman whose name he can't recall, this seemingly harmless mystery indicates a much larger problem. After all, as one of the few bioroids in the New Angeles Police Department, Drake 3GI2RC isn't accustomed to forgetting... or even sleeping...
  • Masque by F. Paul Wilson, Matthew Costello

    Masque by F. Paul Wilson, Matthew Costello

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Tristan has no identity, no face, no family, no rights. He is a perfect spy: an artificially created human whose metamorphic DNA can be programmed with "masques"--genetic copies of anyone--over and over again. Until his body breaks down. But Tristan's masters offer him humanity, citizenship, and a permanent shape in exchange for one last mission...
  • KOP Killer by Warren Hammond

    KOP Killer by Warren Hammond

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    KOP Killer, a darkly dystopian science fiction thriller from Warren HammondJuno Mozambe once had a life. That was when he was a dirty cop, married to a woman who suffered such profound abuse that she murdered her vile, drug kingpin father. Juno loved his wife and did his best to help her survive her guilt, her drug habit, and her desire to end her life on the dead-end planet of Lagarto...
  • The Best of John W. Campbell by John W. Campbell Jr., Lester del Rey

    The Best of John W. Campbell by John W. Campbell Jr., Lester del Rey

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THE VISIONS OF JOHN W. CAMPBELLHere are the finest stories by the man who almost single-handedly created modern science fiction--the writer who taught a generation to dream...and to write of all possible futures.TWILIGHTHe was a mere hitchhiker now, but he had once seen the far, far future...and had returned to mourn what he had seen!THE MACHINEThe machine was ultimately benevolent..
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