Science Fiction Bargain Book Box

Science Fiction Bargain Book Box

From first contact and interstellar empires to dystopian futures and the far reaches of deep space, this collection brings together some of the most exciting voices in contemporary science fiction alongside modern classics of the genre. Spanning space opera, hard SF and near-future thriller, there's something here for every kind of science fiction reader.

1. Arch-Conspirator — Veronica Roth | ISBN: 9781803363578 | RRP: $32.99 A bold retelling of Sophocles' Antigone set in a dying world where the genetic material of the dead is hoarded by the powerful few. Veronica Roth strips the ancient tragedy down to its bones and rebuilds it as urgent, propulsive science fiction.
2. The Principle of Moments — Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson | ISBN: 9781473234208 | RRP: $34.99 Longlisted for the 2024 TikTok Book Awards, this dazzling debut weaves together time travel, myth, and empire in a story spanning centuries. A remarkable arrival from a major new voice in British science fiction.
3. Creation Node — Stephen Baxter | ISBN: 9781473228979 | RRP: $24.99 Hard SF master Stephen Baxter returns with a sweeping tale of first contact and cosmic consequence. Characteristically rigorous and imaginative, this is science fiction that takes both the science and the fiction seriously.
4. The Flight of the Aphrodite — S J Morden | ISBN: 9781473228580 | RRP: $32.99 A deep space vessel. A dwindling crew. A distress signal from somewhere it shouldn't be. SJ Morden delivers a taut, claustrophobic thriller that draws on the best traditions of classic science fiction adventure.
5. Super Extra Grande — David Frye | ISBN: 9781632060563 | RRP: $27.99 A wildly entertaining Cuban science fiction novel in which the galaxy's largest veterinarian travels the universe treating the galaxy's largest alien creatures. Funny, irreverent, and unlike anything else in the genre — a genuine one-of-a-kind read.
6. The Blue, Beautiful World — Karen Lord | ISBN: 9781399618861 | RRP: $55.00 Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024, this elegant and humane novel imagines a first contact scenario playing out not through government channels but through culture, music, and the quiet work of extraordinary individuals.
7. The Mars House — Natasha Pulley | ISBN: 9781399618533 | RRP: $55.00 A BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick. On a terraforming Mars, a climate refugee from Earth finds himself entangled in a political marriage and a world where the rules of power, identity, and belonging are nothing like he expected. Natasha Pulley at her most inventive.
8. Airside — Christopher Priest | ISBN: 9781399608831 | RRP: $55.00 From the visionary author of The Prestige comes a disorienting and brilliant novel set in the liminal space of international airports — where identities blur, reality shifts, and nothing about the journey is quite what it seems.
9. The Red Scholar's Wake — Aliette de Bodard | ISBN: 9781399601368 | RRP: $24.99 Shortlisted for the 2023 Arthur C. Clarke Award, this rich and inventive space opera is set among the Vietnamese-inspired Đại Việt empire, following a widow who must forge an unlikely alliance to survive in a world of pirate fleets and dangerous politics.
10. Sisters of the Forsaken Stars — Lina Rather | ISBN: 9781250782144 | RRP: $32.99 A congregation of nuns operates a small medical station at the edge of explored space — and finds themselves at the centre of a rebellion they can no longer ignore. Thoughtful, compassionate, and quietly gripping space opera.
11. Winter's Orbit — Everina Maxwell | ISBN: 9780356515885 | RRP: $22.99 A Sunday Times instant bestseller and fan favourite, this queer space opera romance follows two men thrust into a political marriage who must navigate court intrigue, interplanetary diplomacy, and their own undeniable feelings for each other.
12. Star Bringer — Tracy Wolff | ISBN: 9780349439976 | RRP: $24.99 One ship. Seven strangers. The universe on the brink of destruction. Tracy Wolff delivers a propulsive, witty space adventure with a cast of misfits who have absolutely no business saving the galaxy — but are going to try anyway.
13. Fortuna — Kristyn Merbeth | ISBN: 9780316453998 | RRP: $27.99 The Kaisers are a family of interplanetary smugglers scraping a living on the fringes of five colony worlds. When a job goes catastrophically wrong, they find themselves caught between forces that could tear the solar system apart — and each other.
14. Forgotten Worlds — D Nolan Clark | ISBN: 9780316355773 | RRP: $29.99 In the far future, humanity's last survivors cling to existence against an alien enemy that cannot be reasoned with or stopped — only endured. A gripping instalment in a military science fiction series built on tension, sacrifice, and the cost of survival.
15. The Andromeda Evolution — Michael Crichton | ISBN: 9780062473271 | RRP: $49.99 A worthy continuation of Crichton's classic thriller. When a new form of the Andromeda strain is discovered deep in the Amazon, a team of scientists races to contain a threat that has been evolving for decades — with devastating potential.
16. The Stardust Grail — Yume Kitasei | ISBN: 9780008708832 | RRP: $34.99 A retired alien-artefact smuggler is pulled back into the game for one last job: recover a stolen relic before it destroys an entire civilisation. A stylish, fast-paced space heist with genuine heart at its centre.
17. The Future — Naomi Alderman | ISBN: 9780008309176 | RRP: $24.99 From the author of The Power comes a razor-sharp near-future thriller about three of the world's most powerful tech billionaires — and the small group of people who may be the only ones capable of stopping them from surviving the end of the world alone.
18. Polostan (Bomb Light, Book 1) — Neal Stephenson | ISBN: 9780008262600 | RRP: $34.99 The first book in Neal Stephenson's Bomb Light series, set across 1930s America and the Soviet Union. A young woman navigates a world of competing ideologies, dangerous secrets, and the looming shadow of the atomic age in this ambitious and richly detailed opening chapter.