The best new science fiction books of October 2025, featuring Chris Hadfield and a tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin

Scientific and fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin in 2001

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Like many of you, no doubt, Ursula K. Le Guin-one of my favorite science fiction writers. So I am really excited by the collection this month, which unites the cards that she would draw when starting history, and also celebrates her brilliant and wise letter. Not least because we just read Deprived With Book Club of a new scientist: Come and join us and share your thoughts about this classic novel with other fans!

Scientific and fiction this month is looking forward to and backward. Ken Liu brings us a thriller in the near future, and I strive to read the story of Megha Majumdar about the flooded Calcutta and a desperate mother. There is also a fantasy from astronaut Chris Hadfield and a new release from Mark Z. Danielevsky, the author of the “epic strange House of leaves.

Le Guin, advertising tells us for this, drew a card when he begins one of its brilliant stories, such as Earth series (I remember the archipelago at the beginning of these books) and I always return homeThe new collection collects these cards and accompanies their interviews, poems, recipes and stories from a number of participants. This book sounds like a real treasury for my colleagues on fans of Le Guin and me.

In this science fiction thriller in the near future, Hacker Julia was recruited to help save the abducted “dream artist” and reveal the secret of virtual reality. This is the first in Julia Z. The series from the awards of Hugo Liu.

Reynolds who wrote Excellent science fiction story for New scientist A few years ago, a story about a private investigator, who is somewhat unexpectedly unexpected, Yuri Gagarin, who looks at death on a star ship, carrying thousands of sleeping passengers through space.

I must admit that I am not sure how far it goes to the science fiction territory, but I would say that there are many crossovers between science fiction fans and lovers of Danilevsky House of leavesThe field is actually my colleague Jacob Aron chosen It is like one of the best science fiction novels of all time. Therefore, I believe that some of you, like me, will be excited by learning that Danilewski had a new novel this month. This is supposedly followed by two friends in the small city of the Orvop, Utah, to save two horses from slaughter – but I'm sure it will be much more than it, and I am here for this.

This anti -utopian novel takes place in a world where the disease deprived people of their memories, and where they visit the center to retrain how to speak and live. But when the “fragments of memories” begin to return to them, this threatens the strict curriculum of the center, and students begin to doubt what is actually happening. I like this fact in my free time, they watch the old videos and take on the names of the characters from them – Cendler and Gunter, Maria and the Chino!

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Receiving comparison Hunger gamesThis is in an anti -utopian society, where everyone is judged by their ability to correspond, and where one woman finds himself in a love triangle. We are also promised to look at the dangers of social and genetic engineering.

Gloomy industrial corridor in an abandoned spacecraft

In cold eternity, the runaway hides on an abandoned spacecraft

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This piece of cosmic horror will be only a ticket for the Halloween season. Galley is on the run after the exposure of the interplanetary conspiracy. It hides on the Elysian fields, drifting a displacement in space, invented by a trillionaire who thought that the rich could lie in the cryoalic until medicine caught up with mortality. He swam silently for more than a century, after the program was abandoned, but now a galley on board, and something feels wrong …

In the 1970s, a astronaut Chris Hadfield was arranged in the 1970s among the space race between the USA, the USSR and China, when the new Apollo Mission was launched into orbit. This is the third title in the series after Hadfield Apollo kills And DistributorsField

For me, it sounds like a mandatory reading. It is located in almost future Calcutta, where climate change and food deficiency cause floods and hunger. Ma is going to join his husband in Michigan, taking with him his 2-year-old daughter and elderly father. But just as they are going to leave, Ma discovers that her immigration documents were stolen. Let the crazy search for the thief for a week. Meanwhile, Bumba, the thief himself, is an escalation of crimes when he seeks to take care of his family. How far will everyone go to protect their children as the disaster approaches?

Evropeian gray wolf / gray wolf (Canis Lupus) Hunting in a undergrowth / more often in the forest

European Gray Wolf (Canis Lupus) Hunting in the forest

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Lucy, whose earliest memories relate to Covid-19 pandemia and which is now fighting to restore lost species, and Hester was born on the day of the Chernobyl disaster, both dream of the time when the wolves return to the UK. This is “huge” and “unforgettable”, according to at least Kim Stanley Robinson.

We get two for the price of one in this double heading pair of criminal stories installed in a science fiction universe with a distant one. Miller Red Star It follows the escort of the high class on the run, which falls in love with the “fragile and noble clone of the murdered puppet monarch” (I really took this combination of words). Forged Detention He sees a grandmother on an alien planet set forth in the persecution when her grandson is abducted by a terrorist organization.

If you thought Pride, prejudice and zombies Was Zenith (or Nadir) inventions Jane Austin, and then think again: this is Remix Pride and prejudice And Frankenstein This rethinks the equal sister of Mary Bennett as a brilliant scientist who wants to reanimate the dead … to find a husband. But then she meets a wonderful young woman who makes her reconsider what she really wants.

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