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Postmarked from the Stars 2025 Reading Challenge

Join us in the 2025 Sci-Fi Reading Challenge at Postmarked from the Stars! This year, our exploration of science fiction's diverse realms includes a lineup of captivating titles spanning various sf subgenres. From under-the-radar classics that shaped the genre to bold explorations of identity, survival, and society, we’ll traverse sci-fi’s boundless imagination—journeying through fractured multiverses, post-apocalyptic futures, corporate dystopias, and utopian experiments. Along the way, we'll encounter rebellious androids, interstellar castaways, extraterrestrial tricksters, and thought-provoking visions of self, power, and human connection. This year’s lineup also celebrates a range of perspectives, featuring visionary works from Korean and Chinese authors, groundbreaking stories from trans and nonbinary writers, and powerful narratives from female sci-fi pioneers—each bringing a unique lens to the genre’s ever-expanding universe. Our selections span decades, from mid-century satire to '80s and '90s speculative classics, all the way to the inventive and socially incisive sci-fi of today. Together, they chart the evolution of the genre, showcasing how sci-fi continues to push boundaries, reimagine futures, and reflect the anxieties and hopes of their time. Each month, we'll showcase a different title, inviting you to delve into thought-provoking discussions and immerse yourself in these fantastic tales. Discover the universe of sci-fi with ease—each title is available as an audiobook via Libro FM. Unfortunately as of 2/4/2025, The Seep and The Employees are not available on Libro FM. You can also support our bookstore by purchasing new editions of the monthly picks through Bookshop.org using the provided links on our website. While we aim to keep a stock of fun, used copies on our store's website, some titles released recently, so be sure to grab your copy and journey into these fascinating worlds with us! Keep us up to speed with your posts by tagging #PFTSReadingChallenge25 Click on the book covers below to be sent to Bookshop Affiliate links and support our store with your purchase!

Postmarked from the Stars Bookstore Genre: Science Fiction

The Space Between Worlds

By: Micaiah Johnson
Narrated by: Nicole Lewis
Length: 11 hours 46 minutes

“I was thoroughly impressed by this imaginative debut high-concept sci-fi novel about multiverse travel! The protagonist, Cara, is unapologetically Queer, fearless and delightfully snarky! The social commentary is currently relevant and on point! Fans of confronting parallel selves, genre-bending political thrillers and depictions of dystopian... Read more

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Mickey7

A Novel

Mickey7: Book #1

By: Edward Ashton
Narrated by: John Pirhalla & Katharine Chin
Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Now experience where the hit movie from Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho, starring Robert Pattinson, started in Mickey7 (the inspiration for the film Mickey 17).

Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living.

Mickey Barnes is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever... Read more

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I'm Waiting for You

And Other Stories

By: Kim Bo-young
Narrated by: Greg Chun, Jackie Chung & Vico Ortiz
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

“Her fiction is a breath-taking piece of a cinematic art itself. Reminiscent of the world we experienced in Matrix, Inception, and Dark City, still it leads us to this entirely original structure, which is a ground-breaking, mystic literary and cinematic experience. Indeed, powerful and graceful.”—Bong Joon-ho, Oscar-winning director... Read more

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Ammonite

By: Nicola Griffith
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Change or die: the only options available on the Durallium Company-owned planet GP.

The planet's deadly virus had killed most of the original colonists—and changed the rest irrevocably. Centuries after the colony had lost touch with the rest of humanity, the Company returned to exploit GP, and its forces found themselves fighting for their... Read more

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Venomous Lumpsucker

By: Ned Beauman
Narrated by: John Hastings
Length: 10 hours 34 minutes

The near future. Tens of thousands of species are going extinct every year. And a whole industry has sprung up around their extinctions, to help us preserve the remnants, or perhaps just assuage our guilt. For instance, the biobanks: secure archives of DNA samples, from which lost organisms might someday be resurrected . . . But then, one day,... Read more

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Vagabonds

By: Hao Jingfang
Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
Length: 21 hours 26 minutes

A century after the Martian war of independence, a group of kids are sent to Earth as delegates from Mars, but when they return home, they are caught between the two worlds, unable to reconcile the beauty and culture of Mars with their experiences on Earth in this “thoughtful debut” (Kirkus Reviews) from Hugo Award–winning author Hao... Read more

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The Gate to Women’s Country

By: Sheri S. Tepper
Narrated by: Emily Durante
Length: 12 hours 14 minutes

Women rule in Women's Country. Women live apart from men, sheltering the remains of civilization. They have cut themselves off with walls and by ordinance from marauding males. Waging war is all men are good for. Men are allowed to fight their barbaric battles amongst themselves, garrison against garrison. For the sake of his pride, each boy... Read more

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One Second After

The One Second After Series: Book #1

By: William R. Forstchen
Narrated by: Joe Barrett
Length: 13 hours 18 minutes

A post-apocalyptic thriller of the after effects in the United States after a terrifying terrorist attack using electromagnetic pulse weapons.In a small North Carolina town, one man struggles to save his family after America loses a war that will send it back to the Dark Ages.Already cited on the floor of Congress and discussed in the corridors... Read more

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The Fortunate Fall

By: Cameron Reed
Narrated by: Frankie Corzo
Length: 10 hours

A debut novel of remarkable beauty and invention, The Fortunate Fall is back in print for the first time in almost three decades as a Tor Essential, with a new introduction by Jo Walton. Tor Essentials presents new editions of science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary... Read more

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Martians, Go Home

By: Fredric Brown
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
Length: 5 hours 5 minutes

Martians, Go Home, originally published in 1955, is a comic science fiction novel that tells the story of Luke Devereaux, a science fiction writer who witnesses an alien invasion of little green men. These Martians haven't come to Earth to harm anyone—just to annoy people. Unable to touch the physical world, or be touched by it, they take great... Read more

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