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Milo by Lily Morton

Milo by Lily Morton

Milo has been burying himself at Chi an Mor, hiding from the wreckage of his once-promising career and running from a bad relationship that destroyed what little confidence he had. Niall, his big brother’s best friend, has been there for him that entire time. An arrogant and funny man, Niall couldn’t be any more different from the shy and occasionally stuttering Milo, which has never stopped Milo from crushing wildly on the man who saved him. However, just as Milo makes the decision to move on from his hopeless… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Domestic abuse

Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity’s heroes now scrapes by on a freelance salvage vessel, to avoid the attention of greater powers. After earth was destroyed, mankind created a fighting elite to save their species, enhanced humans such as Idris. In the silence of space they could communicate, mind-to-mind, with the enemy. Then their alien aggressors, the Architects, simply disappeared—and Idris and his kind became obsolete. Now, fifty years later, Idris and his… Read more.

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Torture

Activation Degradation by Marina Lostetter

Activation Degradation by Marina J. Lostetter

When Unit Four—a biological soft robot built and stored high above the Jovian atmosphere—is activated for the first time, it’s in crisis mode. Aliens are attacking the Helium-3 mine it was created to oversee, and now its sole purpose is to defend Earth’s largest energy resource from the invaders in ship-to-ship combat. But something’s wrong. Unit Four doesn’t feel quite right. There are files in its databanks it can’t account for, unusual chemical combinations roaring through its pipes, and the primers it possesses on the aliens are suspiciously sparse. The robot is under… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slavery mentioned
Suicidal ideation
Panic attack, on-page
Drugging
Cannibalism mentioned
Murder mentioned

Starfall Ranch by California Dawes

Starfall Ranch by California Dawes

30-year-old Shiloh Kerridan migrated to the moon world Sirona 5 years ago with one goal: to put a lifetime of betrayals behind her and never deal with a broken heart again. That stuff was better off left behind on Earth where it couldn’t find her. Now she’s the sole inhabitant and owner of 30 beautiful acres of land that she calls Starfall Ranch. Life has been good to her at Starfall, and she hasn’t minded the loneliness one bit. But the discovery of a rich vein of platinum beneath the land has a rich mining company breathing down Shiloh’s neck for a piece of her pie. And what’s worse, her orchards are succumbing to relentless… Read more,

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child sexual abuse recounted
Incest mentioned
Emotional abuse & gaslighting
Suicidal ideation

Hexarchate Stories by Yoon Ha Lee

Hexarchate Stories by Yoon Ha Lee

From the incredible imagination of Hugo- and Arthur C. Clarke-nominated author Yoon Ha Lee comes a collection of stories set in the world of the best-selling Ninefox Gambit. Showcasing Lee’s extraordinary imagination, this collection takes you to the very beginnings of the hexarchate’s history and reveals new never-before-seen stories.

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Rape
Suicide
Body horror

Generations by Tim Lebbon

Generations by Tim Lebbon

On an Outer Rim moon, Captain Malcolm Reynolds ends a card game the lucky winner of an old map covered in mysterious symbols. The former owner insists it’s worthless; back on Serenity, River Tam is able to interpret it. River claims the map points the way to one of the Arks: legendary generation ships that brought humans from Earth- That-Was to the ’Verse. The salvage potential alone is staggering. As the crew approach the aged floating ship, they find it isn’t quite as dead as it first seemed. The closer they get, the more agitated River becomes. She claims something is… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Medical experimentation
Gun violence

Hush by Dylan Farrow

Hush by Dylan Farrow

Seventeen-year-old Shae has led a seemingly quiet life, joking with her best friend Fiona, and chatting with Mads, the neighbourhood boy who always knows how to make her smile. All while secretly keeping her fears at bay… Of the disease that took her brother’s life. Of how her dreams seem to bleed into reality around her. Of a group of justice seekers called the Bards who claim to use the magic of Telling to keep her community safe. When her mother is murdered, she can no longer pretend. Not knowing who to trust, Shae journeys to unlock the truth, instead finding a new… Read more.

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Medical experimentation
Death of a parent
Murder
Knife violence & stabbing
Fire

City of Shattered Light by Claire Winn

City of Shattered Light by Claire Winn

As heiress to a powerful tech empire, seventeen-year-old Asa Almeida strives to prove she’s more than her manipulative father’s shadow. But when he uploads her rebellious sister’s mind to an experimental brain, Asa will do anything to save her sister from reprogramming—including fleeing her predetermined future with her sister’s digitized mind in tow. With a bounty on her head and a rogue A.I. hunting her, Asa’s getaway ship crash-lands in the worst possible place: the neon-drenched outlaw paradise, Requiem. Gun-slinging… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Suicidal ideation
Alcohol consumption
Blood & injury depiction
Dismemberment
Involuntary body modifications
Human medical experimentation
Gun violence
Torture
Organised crime
Kidnapping

The Dazzling Heights by Katharine McGee

The Dazzling Heights by Katharine McGee

New York City, 2118. Manhattan is home to a thousand-story supertower, a breathtaking marvel that touches the sky. But amid high-tech luxury and futuristic glamour, five teenagers are keeping dangerous secrets. Leda is haunted by memories of what happened on the worst night of her life. She’ll do anything to make sure the truth stays hidden—even if it means trusting her enemy. Leda is haunted by memories of what happened on the worst night of her life. She’ll do anything to make sure the truth stays hidden—even if it means trusting her enemy. When Rylin wins a scholarship to an upper-floor school, her life transforms overnight… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Bury Your Gays trope
Teacher-student relationship
Alcohol consumption
Drug use
Murder by drowning

The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee

The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee

Welcome to New York, 2118. A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. Everyone there wants something…and everyone has something to lose. LEDA COLE’s flawless exterior belies a secret addiction—to a drug she never should have tried and a boy she never should have touched. ERIS DODD-RADSON’s beautiful, carefree life falls to pieces when a heartbreaking betrayal tears her family apart. RYLIN MYERS’s job on one of the highest floors sweeps her into a world—and a romance—she never imagined…but will this new life cost Rylin her old… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Kill Your Sapphics trope
Classism
Incest (adopted siblings)
Cheating
Substance addiction recovery
Recreational drug use & abuse
Alcohol consumption
Death from a fall (theme)
Bullying