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Thronebreakers by Rebecca CoffindafferĪlyssa Farshot never wanted to rule the empire. She will miss no opportunity to leverage their combined might and infamy to survive attempt after attempt on her life, until she can figure out exactly why the pilot system works in its misogynist way-and stop more girls from being sacrificed.ģ. But now that Zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily. To tame her unnerving yet invaluable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in Huaxia​. She is labeled an Iron Widow, a much-feared and much-silenced kind of female pilot who can sacrifice boys to power up Chrysalises instead.​ But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected-she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it’s to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister’s death. It doesn’t matter that the girls often die from the mental strain. The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. Any Sign of Life will electrify fans of Rory Power’s Wilder Girls and Emily St. New York Times–bestselling author Rae Carson tells a contemporary and all-too-realistic story about surviving against the odds in this near-future thriller. And that there are worse things than being alone. As she struggles with her new reality, Paige learns that the apocalypse did not happen by accident. She pushes through her fear and her grief and gets through each day scrounging for food, for shelter, for safety. Everyone she loves, and all of her dreams for the future-they’re gone.īut Paige is a warrior. Days later, she wakes up attached to an IV and learns that the whole world has perished. But as March Madness heats up, Paige falls deathly ill. Paige Miller is determined to take her basketball team to the state championship, maybe even beyond. T H A T Y A R E A D E R S N E E D O N T H E I R S H E L V E S I promise you’ll be a convert for life! So bookmark the page, scroll through now and screenshot the books if that’s what you do-just keep these books in mind for an amazing future (!!!) read. So next time you’re looking for a book that will pull you in from its very first page and refuse to let go, please consider reading one of these. So, when you put all these together, what’s not to love? I know book nerds aren’t the biggest fans of math, but this is a simple equation, people! You don’t need to be an intergalactic prodigy to recognize that these epic books deserve so much better. And there’s all manner of speculative fiction that we would argue has given us some of the best (and most heartbreaking) stories of all.

There are nail-biting, personal thrillers that will have you second guessing if you can trust even yourself by chapter’s end. There are thrilling, adventure-filled expeditions with biting commentary on modern society. The truth is, YA sci-fi has all that to offer too-and more. Yet somehow we can't get this sci-fi love to transfer to sci-fi YA books?

#Space opera books 2017 plus

It's wild to me that sci-fi has absolutely taken over mainstream entertainment in the last decade plus with the rise of superhero films + stars wars and other franchises. There are a ton of incredible YA sci-fi books that, for some reason, the entire world refuses to recognize, even with the likes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe conquering pop culture. Every few months, YA Twitter explodes into a very understandable frenzy of, okay, can we all acknowledge that science fiction books deserve better? And you know, they’re right.