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Best Science Fiction Books to read.
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items Science fiction has long captivated imaginations by exploring the boundaries of possibility, from intergalactic adventures to thought-provoking explorations of humanity's relationship with technology. The books in this list represent the very best of...
A self-aware security android known as "Murderbot" accompanies a team of scientists on a mission in a corporate-dominated future. While secretly hacking its own systems to explore its identity, Murderbot must investigate a dark incident at a neighbor...
All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries 1
Jason Dessen awakens in a world completely different from the life he remembers. As he confronts questions of identity, alternate realities, and the paths not taken, he must find a way back to the family he loves in this mind-bending speculative thri...
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
For 12,000 years, the Galactic Empire has reigned supreme, but its collapse looms. Hari Seldon, pioneer of psychohistory, predicts a 30,000-year dark age and establishes the Foundation—a sanctuary of knowledge on a distant planet—to preserve humanity...
Foundation by Isaac Asimov
A space opera featuring seven pilgrims on a journey to the mysterious planet Hyperion, where their fates intertwine.
Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos) by Dan Simmons
A masterpiece of science fiction, set on the desert planet Arrakis, exploring themes of politics, religion, and human ambition.
Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu unfolds against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, where a secret project contacts an alien civilization facing extinction. As the aliens plan to invade Earth, humans divide into factions—either welcoming...
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Young genius Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is drafted into Battle School to prepare for war against alien invaders. Facing isolation, peer rivalry, and psychological challenges, Ender rises as Earth's hope for survival in this award-winning exploration of le...
Ender's Game (The Ender Saga, 1)
In Ready Player One by Ernest Cline, Wade Watts navigates the OASIS, a vast virtual world, in a high-stakes quest to solve puzzles left by its eccentric creator. With control of the OASIS and a massive fortune as the ultimate prize, Wade faces deadly...
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
In an era when dragons roam freely, a wizard named Merlinius defies a king's order for their extinction, sheltering a family of dragons in the clouds. A young boy befriends a dragon and becomes entangled in a battle between dragon species, sparked by...
Dragons in the Clouds by David Blair
Ensign James Cortell awakens from a coma with memories of alien visitors who altered human DNA, creating modern humans and sparking a galactic slave trade. As a mutation causes gigantism, Dr. Kadeya and her grandson, Ramuell, intervene, caught betwee...
Alien Exodus (Eden's Angels) by Gary Beene
Hiro, a legendary hacker in the Metaverse, investigates a dangerous digital drug called "Snow Crash" that threatens both virtual and real worlds. Joined by Y.T., a fearless skateboard courier, Hiro uncovers ancient mysteries and battles a villainous ...
Snow Crash: A Novel by Neal Stephenson
Dana is forcibly transported from 1976 California to antebellum Maryland, where she must ensure the survival of Rufus, a slaveowner's heir, to secure her own lineage. Facing the brutal realities of slavery, Dana struggles to maintain her autonomy whi...
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
Elemental is the dramatic first book in the Elemental YA science fiction series. If you like relatable heroines, thrilling adventures, and building friendships, then you’ll love Liane Mahugh’s stellar coming-of-age tale.
Elemental by Liane Mahugh
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World envisions a dystopian future where humans are genetically engineered, socially conditioned, and pacified by drugs to serve an authoritarian regime. Written during the rise of fascism in the 1930s, this classic remains ...
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
A space probe detects a mysterious signal beyond Neptune, prompting humanity to send a uniquely specialized team to investigate an enigmatic alien intelligence. With a linguist, a biologist, a pacifist warrior, a vampire, and a synthesist, this gripp...
Blindsight (Firefall Book 1) by Peter Watts
A post-apocalyptic Earth faces a new dark age, where science is shunned. The Order of St. Leibowitz preserves remnants of human knowledge, including a peculiar note from their founder. This satirical sci-fi classic explores humanity’s cyclical nature...
A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
A lunar penal colony revolts against Earth’s control, aided by a self-aware supercomputer. This sci-fi classic explores themes of political freedom, personal responsibility, and humanity’s evolving relationship with technology, remaining highly relev...
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Area X, a mysterious and isolated zone reclaimed by nature, has claimed the lives of previous expeditions. Four women—a biologist, psychologist, surveyor, and anthropologist—venture into its depths to uncover its secrets, only to face unimaginable li...
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
In this gripping tale, humanity escapes a dying Earth to settle on a terraformed planet—a treasure left by their ancestors. However, the planet’s abandonment has led to unforeseen consequences, as new masters transform the refuge into humanity’s wors...
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
In this gripping tale, a hundred colonists set out to terraform Mars, employing advanced techniques to transform it into an Earthlike habitat. However, their ambitious efforts encounter fierce opposition from those determined to preserve the planet’s...
Red Mars (Mars Trilogy) by Kim Stanley Robinson
In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, a post-apocalyptic Earth struggles with extinction and emigration to Mars. Advanced androids indistinguishable from humans are banned and hunted. Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter, must "retire" ...
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Criss, a powerful AI confined by its creator, Dr. Jessica Tallette, faces a new challenge when alien traders, the Kardish, demand control over him. Tasked with confronting the aliens, Criss becomes Earth's potential weapon, but his trustworthiness is...
Crystal Deception (Crystal Series)
Anderson Lake searches for extinct food sources in a dystopian future ruled by calorie companies, where bioengineered plagues run rampant. Emiko, a genetically engineered "New Person," navigates the harsh streets of Bangkok. This award-winning novel ...
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Case, a once-brilliant data-thief, is recruited for a daring mission against a powerful AI after being exiled from cyberspace. Joined by a street-samurai and a dead man, he embarks on an adventure that revolutionized the cyberpunk genre. William Gibs...
Neuromancer (Sprawl Trilogy) by William Gibson
In A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge, humanity exists in a universe divided into "regions of thought," where intellect is determined by location. When an ancient artifact unleashes a devastating power, Ravna escapes with cryogenically frozen child...
A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge