Pile by the Bed reviews The Watch by Emily Smith a twisty post-apocalyptic tale that is much more than it first appears.

Pile by the Bed reviews Time to Burn by Ellery Lloyd a high-concept thriller which explores the exploitation of time travel tourism.

Pile by the Bed reviews The Infinite Sadness of Small Appliances by Glenn Dixon, a heatwarming story of a plucky vacuum cleaner and fellow appliances who try to save their humans in an AI-controlled future.

Pile by the Bed reviews Sublimation by Isabel J Kim a science fiction novel that uses a mind-bending premise to consider iddes of individuality, agency, autonomy, homecoming and legacy.

Pile by the Bed reviews The End of Romance by Maria Takolander which follows a mother and son as they navigate a bleak view of the future.

Pile by the Bed reviews After the Fall by Edward Ashton which imagines a post alien invasion Earth in which humans have been bred to be servile.

Pile by the Bed reviews Absence by Andrew Dana Hudson an exploration of loss, grief and belief set in a world in which people are mysteriously disappearing.

Pile by the Bed reviews Foundling Fathers by Meg Elison, a satirical novella that takes on America’s foundational mythology.

Pile by the Bed reviews Green City Wars by Adrian Tchaikovsky a noir detective meets biopunk science fiction novel featuring a PI racoon who is one of many engineered animals that run future human cities.

Pile by the Bed reviews Detour by Jeff Rake and Rob Hart a puzzlebox science fiction story about a mission to Saturn’s moon of Titan that feels very much like it was written to be a TV series and ends on multiple cliffhangers.

Pile by the Bed reviews The Many by Sylvain Neuvel a positive spin on the concept of a hive mind.

Pile by the Bed reviews Ode to the Half-Broken by Suzanne Palmer a tale of a robot and his rag tag group of friends trying to stop a new conflict between humans and machines.

Pile by the Bed reviews Your Behavior Will be Monitored by Justin Feinstein a day-after-tomorrow exploration of AI.

Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends Rabbit Test and Other Stories by Samantha Mills, a collection of diverse speculative fiction short stories anchored around the multi-award winning title story.

Pile by the Bed reviews Radiant Star by Ann Leckie, a fun stand alone novel set on a small planet in her Imperial Radch universe.

Pile by the Bed reviews and recommends The Faith of Beasts by James SA Corey, the second book in The Captives War trilogy focussing on a small group of humans trapped in a giant alien war machine.

Pile by the Bed reviews Seek the Traitor’s Son by Veronica Roth, the first book in a science fiction duology set on a future Earth and involving prophecies and a dash of romance.

Pile by the Bed reviews The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee a science fiction novel that follows an aging highly skilled corporate samurai navigating her final job on a colony world.

Pile by the Bed reviews Pedro the Vast by Simón López Trujillo a speculative novel from Chile in which a man forms a connection with sentient mushrooms.

Pile by the Bed reviews The Misheard World by Aliya Whitely a book that starts as a fairly traditional fnatasy novel but twists into something very different.