Looking for a book for that special someone in your life? Need a gift for your teacher/personal trainer/coworker or other person for whom you have no idea what to buy? Not to worry, our gift guide will provide you with suggestions sure to bring lasting joy. In this second of four gift guides, take a look at recommendations for heavy thinkers and escapists.
Heavy Thinkers
For the people who really like to delve into the layers and meaning of a story. The philosophers, the analysts, the people who regularly attend (or host) book clubs: these books will give you much to discuss.
Why I Hunt Flying Saucers and Other Fantasticals
Irreverent situations abound in stories such as “Pornzilla” and “The Z-Burger Simulations”, but all of Spencer’s short stories have things to say about society and humanity. This collection will both entertain and enlighten you.
Tinker’s Plague
In this post-apocalyptic dystopia, most technology may be gone without oil and gas to run it, but the excesses of the modern age leave plenty of remnants behind for survivors to deal with. Between politics and ignorance, nothing is simple or clear-cut in this future.
Crowman
When your entire world lives in darkness, how can any light survive? A stark and poetic exploration of the corruption of power and the desperation of hope. The first book of a complete trilogy.
The Fragrance of Orchids and Other Stories
With tales of loss and cruelty as well as rebirth and self-discovery, this collection will linger on your mind long after you’ve finished reading.
Escapists
Sometimes, you just want to dive headlong into a new world and not think about the one you left behind. We’ve got your back: these books pull you in from page one and will keep you engrossed for many pages to come.
The Maiden Voyage of New York City
Follow the story of the self-made mayor who has to make the hardest decisions of her life, a young engineer whose dreams of greatness are crushed by reality, a severely depressed police officer and her recently injured partner desperately trying to clean up the Boroughs, and more in a post-climate change New York.
Cloning Freedom
A daring escape from a manufactured world and the whims of TV producers is just the beginning: a huge cast of characters and a galaxy-spanning universe with over a dozen alien races takes you on the adventure of a lifetime. Four books out since 2020 and the fifth on the way!
Shadows of Slavery
From star-crafting Deus to supernaturally gifted peacekeepers to a reformed gladiator slave, the Birthright saga presents an engrossing tale of danger, rescue, and ominous portents.
Alium
Our longest book yet, this truly epic tale follows a virtuous ogre, a struggling witch, and a possessed sorcerer seeking a mysterious power in the midst of a war of attrition in a world poisoned by the hatred and destruction of the past.
Stay tuned for part 3 of our gift guide, when we give recommendations for queer readers and busy moms. Coming on Wednesday!
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