The Mars House

My second recommendation is 'The Mars House' by Natasha Pulley. I'm a Natasha This This delightful, imaginative novel uses sci-fi tropes as a launching point into something whimsical and playful — closer to fantasy than hard sci-fi. It's a love story masquerading as a sci-fi novel and fantasy cosplaying as speculative fiction. And it all works like gangbusters. In a not-too-distant future, London has become a drowned city. Our hero January Stirling was the principal dancer in London's Royal Ballet — now he's living on a terraformed colony on Mars. And through a series of circumstances (that are equal parts… show more.