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Based on the recent reviews and awards, here are some excellent science fiction novels published in 2024 that I'd recommend: Top Picks: "The Ministry of Time" by Kaliane Bradley - This debut novel combines time-travel romance with workplace comedy, roommate drama, espionage, and temporal physics Goodreads. It won the Goodreads Choice Award for Science Fiction and has been widely praised. "In Ascension" by Martin MacInnes - A philosophical novel with big action and universe-spanning stakes, following Anna, a survivor living as an office worker who encounters a many-headed serpent alien named Ssrin as a strange broadcast fills the universe with horror Esquire. "Translation State" by Ann Leckie - This was a Nebula Award nominee in 2024. Leckie's work features small details having extraordinary significance on larger scales, where the smallest things often make the biggest difference Esquire. "Redwood and Wildfire" by Andrea Hairston - Set in a future with nostalgia militias and darknet lords, it follows Cinnamon Jones running the sprawling Next World Festival with help from her Circus-Bots (AI trained on her ancestors' memories), border collies, and a Ghost Mall full of community leaders Esquire. It's been praised as a joyful reminder about resilience and community. "Girlfriend" by Justin C. Key - A feminist science fiction work about Annie, designed to be the perfect girlfriend for Doug, who begins questioning her role as she grows and develops BOOK RIOT. These books span different subgenres from time travel to space opera to near-future Earth, so your friend should find something that matches their interests!