From Michel Houellebecq to Booker-longlisted Richard Powers and Rachel Kushner, there is plenty of excellent science fiction to read this September
There is a smorgasbord of new science fiction on offer in September, whether you are after high-end literary writing from the likes of Booker-longlisted Rachel Kushner and Richard Powers or universe-spanning romps from Yume Kitasei and Riley August. We have new work from the grandmaster Peter F. Hamilton, a glimpse of a near-future France from Michel Houellebecq and an intriguing vision of how we might deal with future plagues from Hannu Rajaniemi.
Maya Hoshimoto is an art thief turned anthropology student, but she is lured back to her old ways when she is asked to find a powerful object that could save an alien species from extinction. As she sets off through the universe investigating, she discovers she isn’t the only one looking for it. Described as an “anti-colonial space heist”, this sounds excellent.We asked New Scientist staff to pick their favourite science fiction books.
Science fiction authors don’t get much more legendary than Peter F. Hamilton, and this latest sounds intriguing – it’s a novel set in the universe of new sci-fi role-playing game. Thousands of years after humanity fled a dying Earth in ark ships, the settlers of Centauri have evolved into advanced beings. Finn is one of them, but wants a different future and takes the chance to become a Traveler, exploring the far reaches of space.
The universe is full of dead civilisations, and Scout is an archivist who scours dead worlds for anything interesting that might have been left behind. Now they have found a message from an alien who saw their world end thousands of years ago. I love the quote provided for this novel by writer Nadia El-Fassi: “Come for the space archaeologists and adorably violent Pumpkin the cat, but stay for a science fiction novel that will repair your soul.
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