Notes: This volume collects Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy, which explores what happens when powerful aliens take a destroyed Earth for themselves, and offer humanity its only chance for survival: to become aliens themselves.

Notes: The latest in Banks's wildly popular vampire huntress series.

Notes: Scary situations and believable supernatural abilities force these characters to fight for their lives in ways you can't imagine. Fans of Octavia Butler's Patternmaster series will like this book.

Notes: In a future Brazilian city-state controlled by a matriarchy, rowdy teenage bioartists start a unintended rebellion because of their creativity and need to make art.

Notes: Book one of the Inheritance Trilogy, a highly original fantasy world full of danger, mythology and mystery.

Notes: When their homeland is destroyed, the survivors of a proud and aloof alien society struggle to reach out to the rest of the galaxy for aid and understanding while striving to preserve their cherished way of life. One part Ursula K. Le Guin, one part Octavia Butler, one party totally original inventiveness from Lord. Mix and stir!