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Thrilling SciFi

Discover new science fiction books that incorporate thrilling or mysterious elements.

Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library

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  • Contagion meets The Walking Dead in this new sci-fi thriller where a biological threat ravages scientists and military personnel at the South Pole.
    Book, 2025London : Angry Robot, an imprint of Watkins Media Ltd, 2025. — Fiction
  • In the years after the glaciers melt, Nonie, her older sister and her parents and their researcher friends have stayed behind in an almost deserted New York City, creating a settlement on the roof of the American Museum of Natural History. The rule:…
    Book, 2025New York : St. Martin's Press, 2025. — Fiction
  • Cold Storage

    a Thriller of the Near Future

    Grumley, Michael C.,
    Technology never works well the first time. Or even the second. Army veteran John Reiff is living proof. This time he is revived in the back of a dilapidated ambulance, on the run from a shadowy organization that is desperate to take him back. –…
    Book, 2025New York : Forge/Tor Publishing Group, 2025. — Fiction
  • The crew of the Artemis - led by Firewatch agent Alexandra Petrova - have survived the furious onslaught of the Basilisk and broken through the space blockade around Paradise-1. Now they can pursue their original mission and investigate why Earth's…
    Book, 2024New York : Orbit, 2024. — Fiction
  • New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented: the personal computer.
    Book, 2025New York : Tor/Tor Publishing Group, 2025. — Fiction
  • Edie is done with crime. Eight years in prison changes a person. Particularly when you're only there because your partner, your best friend, your all-but-sister, sold you down the river. Even getting Edie out on early parole doesn't earn Angel any…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Harper Voyager, an imprint of HaperCollinsPublishers, 2025. — Fiction
  • When a drug-fueled evening causes her to commit a desperate crime, daring to hope she can keep one last secret, Nelah, as the ghost of her victim hunts down the people she loves, must unravel the political conspiracy they were on the verge of…
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Erewhon, an imprint of Kensington Publishing Corp., [2024] — Fiction
  • A house embedded with an artificial intelligence is a common thing. But a house that is an artificial intelligence, infused in every crevice and corner with a thinking creature that is not human? That is something else altogether. That is Rose House.
    Book, 2023New York City : Tor Publishing Group, ©2023. — Fiction
  • Imperium is the most expensive structure ever created. Once an orbiting laboratory, it is now a space hotel for the fantastically wealthy. But as the station preps for its first group of space tourists, Dr. Chloe Bonilla, Imperium’s resident…
    Book, 2024Ashland, Oregon : Blackstone Publishing, 2024. — Fiction
  • After losing her job to artificial intelligence, May, in a city populated by intelligent robots called "hums," takes her family on a three-night respite to the Botanical Garden, a rare green refuge, where her children come under threat and she is…
    Book, 2024New York : Marysue Rucci Books, 2024. — Fiction
  • When mutilated bodies are discovered, both in her town and in the wealthier, walled-off Wiley City, Scales, an enforcer, is tasked with finding and destroying the cause -- a mission that reveals something more corrupt than she could've ever foreseen…
    Book, 2024New York : Del Rey, [2024] — Fiction