The most delightful Science Fiction category winner is hands down Susan Kaye Quinn. I love every book of hers I have read: the bollypunk Three Sisters, The Debt Collector, Mind Jack, and Singularity series.
In the Mindjack series, in a world where everyone can read minds, Kira believes herself a zero, someone who can neither read nor be read. But she has the greatest power of all, she can mindjack: enter other people's minds and manipulate them.
In Singularity, most humans have become augmented with AI. Seventeen-year-old painter Elijah Brighton is on the verge of "ascending," but what he learns will change everything as a battle wages between the ascended and humankind.
In the luscious Royals of Dharia series, Aniri is the third daughter without much responsibility. When a barbarian prince proposes, Aniri is forced to accept to avoid war. But Aniri finds the prince has secrets that she can use to her advantage in this Bollywood-meets-steampunk adventure.
The latest is her four book hopepunk series, Nothing is Promised.
They're about our future, how society will shift and flex like a solar lily in the storms of our own making, and how breaks in the social fabric have to be expected, tended to, and healed. Because we’re in this together, now more than ever before. I have downloaded this to my Kindle.
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In which I compare dystopian novels: http://dianahurwitz.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-tale-of-two-dystopias.html
I loved Alexandra Bracken's world building in the The Darkest Minds dystopian series
Protagonist Ruby is sent to a brutal government "rehabilitation camp" when a mysterious disease kills most of America's children. Ruby attempts to hide the truth about her magical abilities, but when they are discovered, she barely escapes Thurmond with her life. She joins a group of other kids on the run: Zu, a young girl haunted by her past; Chubs, a standoffish brainiac; and Liam, their fearless leader. They search for answers as well as a safe haven.
In Insignia, the first book of the fast-paced SciFi trilogy, the planet's natural resources are almost gone, and war is being fought to control the assets of the solar system. The enemy is winning. The salvation may be Tom Raines. Tom doesn't seem like a hero. He's a short fourteen-year-old with bad skin. But he has the virtual-reality gaming skills that make him a phenom behind the controls of the battle drones.
As a new member of the Intrasolar Forces, Tom's life completely changes. Suddenly, he's someone important. He has new opportunities, friends, and a shot at having a girlfriend. But there's a price to pay.
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The time traveling series, The Last Magician, takes place in modern-day New York where magic is all but extinct. The remaining few who have an affinity for magic—the Mageus—live in the shadows, hiding who they are. Any Mageus who enters Manhattan becomes trapped by the Brink, a dark energy barrier that confines them to the island. Crossing it means losing their power—and often their lives. Esta is a talented thief, and she's been raised to steal magical artifacts from the sinister Order that created the Brink. With her innate ability to manipulate time, Esta can pilfer from the past, collecting these artifacts before the Order even realizes she’s there. And all of Esta’s training has been for one final job: traveling back to 1902 to steal an ancient book containing the secrets of the Order—and the Brink—before the Magician can destroy it and doom the Mageus to a hopeless future. But Old New York is a dangerous world ruled by ruthless gangs and secret societies, a world where the very air crackles with magic. Nothing is as it seems, including the Magician himself. And for Esta to save her future, she may have to betray everyone in the past.
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