Genre: Science Fiction

Uptown Oracle Reads… Seven Devils | A Outstanding Feminist Space Crew Ready to Save the Galaxy

I wanted to reach Seven Devils for a couple of different reasons. Firstly, I loved Elizabeth May’s The Falconer and wanted to see what her writing sci-fi was like. I’ve not read any of Laura Lam’s work before, but I’m still excited to see what the two writer set up was like. Then I was…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Loneliest Girl in the Universe

The Loneliest Girl in the UniverseLauren James (Affiliate Links) Can you fall in love with someone you’ve never met, never even spoken to – someone who is light years away? Romy Silvers is the only surviving crew-member of a spaceship travelling to a new planet, on a mission to establish a second home for humanity…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Emily Eternal

Emily EternalM.G. Wheaton (Affiliate Links) Meet Emily – she can solve advanced mathematical problems, unlock the mind’s deepest secrets and even fix your truck’s air con, but unfortunately, she can’t restart the Sun. She’s an artificial consciousness, designed in a lab to help humans process trauma, which is particularly helpful when the sun begins to…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Oracle Year

Will Dando awakens from a dream one morning with 108 predictions in his head, he rapidly finds himself the most powerful man in the world. Protecting his anonymity by calling himself the Oracle, he sets up a website with the help of his friend Hamza to announce his revelations. In no time, global corporations are…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The October Men

Otto Parsons, a brilliant physicist, is missing. The October Men is a story of Otto’s experiment in quantum physics – trying to create zero gravity without going into space – which yields spectacularly unexpected results: time travel. Professor Dan Sibley, ever more desperate to secure funding to keep the experiment running, allows their work to…
Uptown Oracle Reads… The Zanna Function

When fourteen-year-old Zanna Mayfield gets an acceptance letter from St. Pommeroy’s School for Gifted Children, she jumps at the chance to put her considerable intellect to good use. But nothing can prepare her for the first day, when she discovers that she is a Scientist —one able to see and bend the basic functions of…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Heart of Iron

Found as a child drifting through space with D09, Ana was saved by a fearsome space captain and the crew she now calls family. But D09 – one of the last remaining illegal Metals – has been glitching, and Ana will stop at nothing to find a way to fix him. Ana’s desperate effort leads…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Ready Player One

In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade’s devoted his life to studying Halliday’s past to unlock the puzzles and win the ultimate prize. When Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he…
Uptown Oracle Reads… Honor Among Thieves

Petty criminal Zara Cole has a painful past that’s made her stronger than most, which is why she chose life in New Detroit instead moving with her family to Mars. In her eyes, living inside a dome isn’t much better than a prison cell. Still, when Zara commits a crime that has her running scared, jail…