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The Kaiju Preservation Society
John Scalzi
The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi's first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy. When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food d...
Kaleidoscope Century
John Barnes
Century Next Door [2]: A stunning evocation of humanity's violent downward slide, Barnes's fourth SF novel is set on Mars during the early part of the 22nd century, in a universe chimerically similar to that of his first, Orbital Resonance.The novel ...
Kalki
Gore Vidal
Once again, Vidal takes on the unmitigated folly born of the unholy partnership of religion, the media, and a public that longs for a savior.The eponymous hero of Kalki, born and bred in America's Midwest, has established himself in Nepal and put out...
The Kar-Chee Reign
Avram Davidson
Kar-Chee [1]: Earth is flat, empty, weary, and bare.Her children, too, had left her, all but a few who lived peacefully off the land. And then came the Kar-Chee, to crack Earth open and suck out what remained of her richness, threatening the twilight...
Kath and Quicksilver
Larry Niven and Brenda Cooper
Published in Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2005.
Keeping It Real
Justina Robson
Quantum Gravity [1]: The Quantum Bomb of 2015 changed everything. The fabric that kept the universe's different dimensions apart was torn and now, six years later, the people of earth exist in uneasy company with the inhabitants of, amongst others, t...
Killing Titan
Greg Bear
War Dogs [2]: A new planet. A new battle. Same war.After barely surviving his last tour on Mars, Master Sergeant Michael Venn finds himself back on earth in enforced isolation. Through a dangerous series of operations he returns to Mars to further hi...
Kiln People
David Brin
In a perilous future, disposable duplicate bodies fulfill every citizen's legal and illicit whim. Life as a 24-hour "ditto" is cheap, as Albert Morris knows. A brash investigator with a knack for trouble, he's sent plenty of clay duplicates into dead...
King of Morning, Queen of Day
Ian McDonald
In early-twentieth-century Ireland, life for Emily Desmond is that of the average teenage girl: She reads, she’s bored with school, and she has a powerful imagination. Then things begin to change. Her imagination is so powerful, in fact, that she wil...
The Kinsman Saga
Ben Bova
Hero or Killer?In a startling future that's coming closer every year, Chet Kinsman is an astronaut ace who has done everything in space - including committying the first murder. It's a secret he can never escape, not even on the Moon, where he's head...
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro
Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside.She remains hopefu...
Komarr
Lois McMaster Bujold
Miles Vorkosigan [9]: Komarr could be a garden - with a thousand more years work. Or an uninhabitable wasteland, if the terraforming fails.Now the solar mirror vital to the terraforming of the conquered planet has been shattered by a ship hurtling of...