Pile by the Bed reviews The Republic of Memory by Muhmad El Sayed, the first book in a science fiction series set on a generation ship called Safina, 200 years into its journey to a new planet.
Pile by the Bed reviews Eden Falls by Ajay Chowdhury a puzzle-based thriller which follows two women seeking to unlock a world-changing mystery while being chased across America by multiple antagonists.
Pile by the Bed reviews Little Spark by Jess Kidd a gothic steampunk fantasy set in Victorian times which follows a young woman with some extraordinary abilities to a remote estate to work with automata.
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 and recommends The Intrigue by Silvia Moreno-Garcia a delightfully twisted historical noir that revolves around a con man trying to score off a boarding house owner in coastal Mexico in the 1940s.
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.
