The Zoo of Intelligent Animals

Author: D.A. Holdsworth

Category: Science Fiction

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Deal starts: March 14, 2025

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"Good characters, a riveting plot and continuous action... I enjoyed it immensely."Amazon Top 500 reviewer, 5 stars"Very original... Really funny. The zoo is particularly entertaining!" Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars"D.A. Holdsworth is an amazing storyteller." Goodreads reviewer, 5 starsIf the ticket is free, it means you're the attractionLondon, 1977.Year of the Silver Jubilee, the Sex Pistols – and a spate of unexplained disappearances from across the academic world.Elizabeth Belfort, a young agent with a high-flying career and a low-flying marriage, is urgently dispatched to bring in an elusive government informant.But she soon finds herself drawn into the mysterious world of this informant and his family as they embark on a rescue mission. New horizons and new loves start to overturn her well-ordered life. Before long, she is travelling across galaxies to confront an alien race, who’ve taken a special interest in planet Earth and its primary intelligent species. They’ve even made a special home for some of them.In a zoo.Fast-paced, thrilling and inventive, The Zoo of Intelligent Animals is the prequel to the bestsellingHow to Buy a Planet. Offering the same combination of satire and adventure, this novel is perfect for fans of Matt Haig, Neil Gaiman, or Erin Morgenstern. QUARTER-FINALIST BookLife Prize 2022 Critics' score: 9 / 10

Fragile

Author: Alexa Weik von Mossner

Category: Science Fiction

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"An engrossing book," recommended byKirkus Reviews"Undeniably timely, imaginative, and compelling." The Black ListIn a near-future ravaged by climate change, a man tasked with keeping New York City alive falls for a woman determined to protect its most vulnerable creatures.New York City in 2057—a metropolis divided. Sheltered by seawalls, Manhattan is green, clean, and thriving while Brooklyn and Queens have been given up to the hurricanes and the rising Atlantic. In this broken city, Jake and Shavir are like Romeo and Juliet, only that Jake works for Homeland Security and Shavir would be charged as a terrorist should she ever get caught.Jake works for Homeland because he is brilliant at securing critical medical drugs in a fragile world running out of everything. Haunted by the loss of his family and a job that forces him to choose life or death for others, Jake is a sensitive man with too much amphetamine in his blood. He can’t afford to care for anyone, least of all a woman who is keeping secrets from him.Shavir thinks of herself as a part-time barista, a community farmer, and an underground activist fighting for the forgotten and discarded in what is left of Brooklyn. Her heart beats for the people on a rooftop farm called Roots and for the animals she rescues. The last thing she needs in her life is a Homeland guy, and yet she can’t stay away from Jake. When she takes him across the East River to the community he was ordered to ignore, entirely new questions arise about who must be saved and who can be sacrificed.A gripping medical thriller, a thought-provoking look into our future, and an unflinching examination of our deep need for love and connection in times of social and environmental upheaval, Fragile is perfect for fans of Emily St. John Mandel and Alison Stine.

The Fast Track

Author: Tom Draycott

Category: Science Fiction

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You're about to enter a post-truth world. A world dominated by artificial intelligence.A cruel exam separates members of the Establishment from the Plebeians. A pass ensures an easy life, and a failure… well, let’s not talk about that now.Stephen ‘Mac’ Mackenzie, Yoshiko Williams and Dinesa ‘Ditz’ Agrawal score one hundred percent and are sent to Cambridge to learn the art and science of being a ‘Tech’, one of the secret few responsible for maintaining progress and stability. Yoshiko is keen to escape and visit her beloved Uncle; Dinesa wants to help her brother, and Mac is about to learn the realities of power.Find yourself in this fast-paced point-of-view novel and feel yourself being pulled in.

Flare

Author: Jonathan Maas

Category: Science Fiction

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Deal starts: March 12, 2025

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FEAR THE DAYLIGHT Without warning or explanation, an extended solar flare bombards the earth and doesn't stop, making each day a battle for survival.
The sunlight blinds and burns instantly, and then kills within minutes. The radiation has also destroyed all of the earth's circuitry, leaving the nights dark and dangerous.
TWO FIND HOPE AMIDST THE CHAOS Two survivors, a thousand miles apart, each hear a rumor of a distant safe haven that can withstand the sun. Zeke is a silent wanderer, Ash is a brilliant young man hiding a painful past, and neither know just what this place really is.
To get there they must each travel through ravaged towns and over hundreds of miles of charred earth, and must do so under a sky waiting to kill them with every sunrise.
But with the world's population dying off and humanity getting more and more violent as the days pass, their paths are destined to collide, because this unknown and unseen place might be the only hope remaining.
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Symbiote Wars

Author: Chris Kennedy

Category: Science Fiction

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James Sutton was an average guy—he couldn’t afford college and really didn’t know what he wanted to do with his life.But when his sister Holly goes missing, he finds out he’s been living in an urban fantasy: An alien really did land in Roswell in the 1940s… and the US has had a secret alliance with them ever since.The aliens are symbiotes—capable of bonding with hosts, enhancing their strength, agility, and stamina. The only problem for them was that finding a viable host was difficult… until the symbiotes discover humanity.Now mankind finds itself in the middle of an alien civil war between two symbiote factions—those who would be our allies… and those who would subjugate us into slavery forever.

Proud Pada

Author: S.G. Blaise

Category: Science Fiction

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Deal starts: March 11, 2025

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Lilla is on her next mission as a Sybil,

when she must travel to the Pada world following the trail of a ruthless murderer.

Navigating deadly politics turns increasingly difficult,

when the Teryn emperor goes missing.

Now the Teryn empire is heading towards civil war,

and Lilla must uncover who is behind the conspiracy before it's too late.

Unfortunately her success depends on the Proud Pada.