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Other-Worldly Fiction: Home

This guide encompasses the genres Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror, also commonly known as Speculative Fiction.

Welcome, horror, science fiction & fantasy readers!

This guide will help you find your next great Horror, Science Fiction or Fantasy read. This group, which is commonly called Speculative Fiction, will often cross multiple genres so if you see books that you think should be in another genre as well, you're probably right! In these guides we are highlighting the classics, some local authors, staff picks and books that will help introduce you to each genre if you're not familiar with them. Get ready to dive into other worlds with these titles!

Staff picks

Out There Screaming edited by Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Ruins by Scott Smith
Goblin: a novel in six novellas by Josh Malerman
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Borne by Jeff Vandermeer

What's new?

Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes
Linghun by Ai Jiang
Evocation by S.T. Gibson
This Skin was Once Mine and Other Disturbances by Eric LaRocca
The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones
Adventures into Terror by Gene Colan
Reformatory by Tananarive Due
Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco
Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt
War Bodies by Neal Asher
Shanghai Immortal by A.Y. Chao
Power Unbound by Freya Marske
Shigidi and the Brass Head of Obalufon by Wole Talabi

Outstanding audiobooks

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Noor by Nnedi Okorafor
Fairy Tale by Stephen King
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
Wool by Hugh Howey
Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Clune
The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel
The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Great graphic novels

Midnite Show by Cullen Bunn
Lore Olympus. Volume 1 by Rachel Smythe
After the Rain by Nnedi Okorafor
Destroyer by Victor LaValle
Saga by Brian Vaughan
Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann
The Strain by David Lapham
The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys by Gerard Way
Locke and Key by Joe Hill
Watchmen by Alan Moore
Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore
Clean Room Vol.1 by Gail Simone
Delphine by Richard Sala
Gideon Falls Vol. 1 by Jeff Lemire
Bitch Planet: Book 1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick
RASL, vol. 1 by Jeff Smith
Mooncop by Tom Gauld

Award winners

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