The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi

"In the near future, the Colorado River has dwindled to a trickle. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel Velasquez “cuts” water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, ensuring that its lush arcology developments can bloom in Las Vegas."

http://a.co/3eM0wWW

The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes

"Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future.

Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he stumbles on a House in Depression-era Chicago that opens on to other times."

http://a.co/5Mzbkga

The Tea Master and the Detective by Aliette de Bodard (novella)

"Welcome to the Scattered Pearls Belt, a collection of ring habitats and orbitals ruled by exiled human scholars and powerful families, and held together by living mindships who carry people and freight between the stars."

http://a.co/cRQDtC7

Dawn by Octavia Butler

"Lilith lyapo awoke from a centuries-long sleep to find herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. Creatures covered in writhing tentacles, the Oankali had saved every surviving human from a dying, ruined Earth. They healed the planet, cured cancer, increased strength, and were now ready to help Lilith lead her people back to Earth--but for a price."

http://a.co/5hZu0X2

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

"Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space—and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe—in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star."

http://a.co/41GgAnc

The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin

"Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion."

http://a.co/6k0hxCu

The Wildlings by Nilanjana Roy

"A small band of cats lives in the labyrinthine alleys and ruins of Nizamuddin, an old neighbourhood in Delhi. Miao, the clan elder, a wise, grave Siamese; Katar, a cat loved by his followers and feared by his enemies; Hulo, the great warrior tom; Beraal, the beautiful queen, swift and deadly when challenged; Southpaw, the kitten whose curiosity can always be counted on to..."

http://a.co/3XkpDf0

Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters.

http://a.co/ipBxcUn

@vector superb book. the whole trilogy is great but actually the series is worth it so you can experience book 3. fantastic ending.

@eliasg Awesome! I'm excited to read it. Did you see the toot with the link to the sffbookclub poll that this was a response to? Trying to mix up the format a bit this month, but unsure how it will show up for everyone since there are so many different presentations of Mastodon content.

@vector I see it now that I was looking for it. Maybe you need a reminder post to the poll?

It would be cool to have some basic markdown at times like this.

@eliasg It is the only one I tagged with the hashtag so hopefully people will find it

@eliasg Maybe I should make the detail toots unlisted?

@vector Wait though, the amount of energy it takes to send a single can of soda one light year is enough to blow up a planet, like in the StarWars the way Alderaan got did. There is no home field advantage if they come to us because it suggests they have more energy than is even contained on the Earth. When interstellar people show up, it's their game, and they can do whatever they want, because they have the energy to travel this far.

@j216 I am guessing this is more of a scifi allegory for European imperialism and China than a hard scifi examination of what a realistic alien invasion would look like.

@vector word.