50 Books like Invisible Planets

The Three-Body Problem

by Liu Cixin

A countdown in a researcher's eyes reveals an alien invasion rooted in China's Cultural Revolution.

4.08

505k+

🏮 Cultural Revolution 🧪 Hard Sci-Fi 👽 First Contact 🛸 Alien Invasion 🌑 Apocalyptic Cult

The Three-Body Problem 93%

A countdown in a researcher's eyes reveals an alien invasion rooted in China's Cultural Revolution.

by Liu Cixin 2006

4.08

505k+ ratings

🏮 Cultural Revolution 🧪 Hard Sci-Fi 👽 First Contact 🛸 Alien Invasion 🌑 Apocalyptic Cult

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

by Ken Liu • 2016

Paper animals breathe, AI curates love, history is witnessed: fifteen stories of longing.

4.35

39k+

📚 Literary Speculative 🧧 Chinese Diaspora ✨ Magic In The Mundane 🐲 Chinese Mythology 📜 Cultural Memory

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories Summary

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories 94%

Paper animals breathe, AI curates love, history is witnessed: fifteen stories of longing.

by Ken Liu 2016

4.35

39k+ ratings

📚 Literary Speculative 🧧 Chinese Diaspora ✨ Magic In The Mundane 🐲 Chinese Mythology 📜 Cultural Memory

Consider Phlebas

by Iain M. Banks • 1987

To save a crumbling empire, a shapeshifter must steal a runaway supermind from a dead world.

3.85

102k+

🦎 Shapeshifter Protagonist 🚀 Mercenary Crew 🛐 Alien Religion 🌍 Doomed Megastructure 🧠 Sentient Starship

Consider Phlebas 92%

To save a crumbling empire, a shapeshifter must steal a runaway supermind from a dead world.

by Iain M. Banks 1987

3.85

102k+ ratings

🦎 Shapeshifter Protagonist 🚀 Mercenary Crew 🛐 Alien Religion 🌍 Doomed Megastructure 🧠 Sentient Starship

Stories of Your Life and Others

by Ted Chiang • 2002

Eight stories where language reshapes time, math comes undone, and a tower scrapes heaven.

4.25

127k+

🗣️ Linguistic Sci-Fi 🤔 Philosophical Sci-Fi ⏳ Nonlinear Time 📐 Mathematical Fiction 🙏 Theological Sci-Fi

Stories of Your Life and Others 91%

Eight stories where language reshapes time, math comes undone, and a tower scrapes heaven.

by Ted Chiang 2002

4.25

127k+ ratings

🗣️ Linguistic Sci-Fi 🤔 Philosophical Sci-Fi ⏳ Nonlinear Time 📐 Mathematical Fiction 🙏 Theological Sci-Fi

Exhalation

by Ted Chiang • 2019

A merchant in ancient Baghdad steps through a time portal to undo a sorrow twenty years past.

4.27

113k+

⏳ Time Travel Fiction 🤔 Philosophical Sci-Fi 🔄 Causal Loop 🔮 Free Will And Fate 🧠 Memory And Identity

Exhalation 90%

A merchant in ancient Baghdad steps through a time portal to undo a sorrow twenty years past.

by Ted Chiang 2019

4.27

113k+ ratings

⏳ Time Travel Fiction 🤔 Philosophical Sci-Fi 🔄 Causal Loop 🔮 Free Will And Fate 🧠 Memory And Identity

Greatest Hits

by Harlan Ellison • 2024

A vengeful AI tortures its prisoners. A rebel defies the clock. A mercy that destroys.

4.07

2k+

🎸 New Wave Sf 🏙️ Dystopian Fiction 🤖 Vengeful Ai 🖤 Dark Satire 👁️ Speculative Horror

Greatest Hits 90%

A vengeful AI tortures its prisoners. A rebel defies the clock. A mercy that destroys.

by Harlan Ellison 2024

4.07

2k+ ratings

🎸 New Wave Sf 🏙️ Dystopian Fiction 🤖 Vengeful Ai 🖤 Dark Satire 👁️ Speculative Horror

Child of Another Kind

by Steven Decker • 2023

A mother dies for her telepathic daughter and meets the aliens who created the girl.

4.28

6k+

🔮 Mind Reading 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond 🌌 Speculative Afterlife 🔬 Government Captive 🤔 Philosophical Sci-Fi

Child of Another Kind 90%

A mother dies for her telepathic daughter and meets the aliens who created the girl.

by Steven Decker 2023

4.28

6k+ ratings

🔮 Mind Reading 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bond 🌌 Speculative Afterlife 🔬 Government Captive 🤔 Philosophical Sci-Fi

The Best of Connie Willis

by Connie Willis • 1993

In worlds broken by time, war, and alien judgment, people still find reasons to sing.

4.10

2k+

🚀 Literary Sf 🌀 Genre Blending 🖤 Bittersweet 👥 Found Family ⏳ Time Travel Ethics

The Best of Connie Willis 90%

In worlds broken by time, war, and alien judgment, people still find reasons to sing.

by Connie Willis 1993

4.10

2k+ ratings

🚀 Literary Sf 🌀 Genre Blending 🖤 Bittersweet 👥 Found Family ⏳ Time Travel Ethics

A Fire Upon the Deep

by Vernor Vinge • 1992

A galaxy-devouring intelligence awakens. Stranded on an alien world, two siblings are the only hope.

4.13

67k+

🤝 First Contact 🧠 Alien Consciousness 👁️ Ancient Superintelligence 🌑 Cosmic Horror 🌌 Galactic Civilization

A Fire Upon the Deep 90%

A galaxy-devouring intelligence awakens. Stranded on an alien world, two siblings are the only hope.

by Vernor Vinge 1992

4.13

67k+ ratings

🤝 First Contact 🧠 Alien Consciousness 👁️ Ancient Superintelligence 🌑 Cosmic Horror 🌌 Galactic Civilization

Accelerando

by Charles Stross • 2005

He gives away ideas that trigger the singularity, while an AI cat engineers his family's fate.

3.87

22k+

🤖 Singularity 🧠 Mind Uploading 🎭 Manipulative Ai 👪 Generational Saga 💰 Post-Scarcity Economy

Accelerando 90%

He gives away ideas that trigger the singularity, while an AI cat engineers his family's fate.

by Charles Stross 2005

3.87

22k+ ratings

🤖 Singularity 🧠 Mind Uploading 🎭 Manipulative Ai 👪 Generational Saga 💰 Post-Scarcity Economy

Leviathan Wakes

by James S.A. Corey • 2011

A detective and a captain race to stop a corporation's alien virus from consuming humanity.

4.31

325k+

🚀 Space Opera 🕵️ Noir Detective 🦠 Alien Virus 🫂 Found Family 👥 Dual Perspectives

Leviathan Wakes 90%

A detective and a captain race to stop a corporation's alien virus from consuming humanity.

by James S.A. Corey 2011

4.31

325k+ ratings

🚀 Space Opera 🕵️ Noir Detective 🦠 Alien Virus 🫂 Found Family 👥 Dual Perspectives

2001

by Arthur C. Clarke • 1968

A monolith wakes on the moon and signals Saturn; two astronauts and a secretive computer follow.

4.18

339k+

🔬 Hard Sci-Fi 🛸 First Contact 🗿 Ancient Aliens 🤖 Rogue AI 🧬 Evolutionary Leap

2001 90%

A monolith wakes on the moon and signals Saturn; two astronauts and a secretive computer follow.

by Arthur C. Clarke 1968

4.18

339k+ ratings

🔬 Hard Sci-Fi 🛸 First Contact 🗿 Ancient Aliens 🤖 Rogue AI 🧬 Evolutionary Leap

Children of Time

by Adrian Tchaikovsky • 2015

Earth's last ark reaches a green world where spiders have cities and the monkeys never arrived.

4.30

180k+

🧬 Accelerated Evolution 🖖 First Contact 🕷️ Uplifted Species 🚀 Generation Ship ⏳ Deep Time

Children of Time 90%

Earth's last ark reaches a green world where spiders have cities and the monkeys never arrived.

by Adrian Tchaikovsky 2015

4.30

180k+ ratings

🧬 Accelerated Evolution 🖖 First Contact 🕷️ Uplifted Species 🚀 Generation Ship ⏳ Deep Time

The Redemption of Time

by Baoshu • 2011

A disembodied brain teaches aliens to lie, his love spanning the death and rebirth of all things.

3.63

11k+

🌌 Metaphysical Sci-Fi 🖤 Cosmic Horror 🧠 Brain In A Jar 💞 Cosmic Love Story 🌍 Last Survivors

The Redemption of Time 92%

A disembodied brain teaches aliens to lie, his love spanning the death and rebirth of all things.

by Baoshu 2011

3.63

11k+ ratings

🌌 Metaphysical Sci-Fi 🖤 Cosmic Horror 🧠 Brain In A Jar 💞 Cosmic Love Story 🌍 Last Survivors

These Memories Do Not Belong to Us

by Yiming Ma • 2025

A son inherits his mother's forbidden memories in an empire where remembering is a crime.

3.43

4k+

🧠 Memory Dystopia 🇨🇳 Chinese Dystopia 🚫 Forbidden Memories ⚠️ Dangerous Inheritance 👁️ Surveillance State

These Memories Do Not Belong to Us Summary

These Memories Do Not Belong to Us 92%

A son inherits his mother's forbidden memories in an empire where remembering is a crime.

by Yiming Ma 2025

3.43

4k+ ratings

🧠 Memory Dystopia 🇨🇳 Chinese Dystopia 🚫 Forbidden Memories ⚠️ Dangerous Inheritance 👁️ Surveillance State

Hyperion

by Dan Simmons

A blade-covered god awaits seven pilgrims. One wish, six deaths. Their stories are their only armor.

4.28

305k+

🗣️ Frame Narrative 🧳 Pilgrimage 🫀 Body Horror 🌌 Cosmic Dread ⚔️ Space War

Hyperion 89%

A blade-covered god awaits seven pilgrims. One wish, six deaths. Their stories are their only armor.

by Dan Simmons 1989

4.28

305k+ ratings

🗣️ Frame Narrative 🧳 Pilgrimage 🫀 Body Horror 🌌 Cosmic Dread ⚔️ Space War

The Sparrow

by Mary Doria Russell • 1996

They went to meet God's other children. One priest returned, broken, and will not say why.

4.13

83k+

🛐 Jesuits In Space 🪐 First Contact Gone Wrong 👽 Alien Anthropology ⛪ Missionary Hubris 🌌 Elegiac Sci-Fi

The Sparrow 90%

They went to meet God's other children. One priest returned, broken, and will not say why.

by Mary Doria Russell 1996

4.13

83k+ ratings

🛐 Jesuits In Space 🪐 First Contact Gone Wrong 👽 Alien Anthropology ⛪ Missionary Hubris 🌌 Elegiac Sci-Fi

Old Man's War

by John Scalzi • 2005

A seventy-five-year-old widower joins the army for a new body and gets an interstellar war.

4.23

227k+

🪖 Military Sci-Fi 🧬 Consciousness Transfer 👽 Alien Warfare 😏 Wry Humor 💪 Boot Camp Training

Old Man's War 89%

A seventy-five-year-old widower joins the army for a new body and gets an interstellar war.

by John Scalzi 2005

4.23

227k+ ratings

🪖 Military Sci-Fi 🧬 Consciousness Transfer 👽 Alien Warfare 😏 Wry Humor 💪 Boot Camp Training

We Are Legion (We Are Bob)

by Dennis E. Taylor • 2016

A dead engineer wakes as an AI and is hurled into space inside a self-replicating probe.

4.25

133k+

🧠 Digital Consciousness 🚀 Von Neumann Probe 👥 Multiple Selves ⚖️ Prime Directive 🌍 Humanity's Last Hope

We Are Legion (We Are Bob) 89%

A dead engineer wakes as an AI and is hurled into space inside a self-replicating probe.

by Dennis E. Taylor 2016

4.25

133k+ ratings

🧠 Digital Consciousness 🚀 Von Neumann Probe 👥 Multiple Selves ⚖️ Prime Directive 🌍 Humanity's Last Hope

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

by Becky Chambers • 2014

Running from her past, a clerk joins a wormhole ship crewed by chaotic, lovable misfits.

4.17

188k+

🛸 Found Family ☕ Cozy Sci-Fi 🚀 Ragtag Crew 🤝 Interspecies Bonds 💘 Slow Burn Romance

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Summary

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet 89%

Running from her past, a clerk joins a wormhole ship crewed by chaotic, lovable misfits.

by Becky Chambers 2014

4.17

188k+ ratings

🛸 Found Family ☕ Cozy Sci-Fi 🚀 Ragtag Crew 🤝 Interspecies Bonds 💘 Slow Burn Romance

Ellison Wonderland

by Harlan Ellison • 1962

A murder kit, a centaur wish, and a robot's return: stories that warp reality.

3.99

1k+

🌀 Surreal Sci-Fi 🌟 Science Fantasy ↩️ Twist Endings 🤡 Absurdist Dilemmas 🪞 Identity Shift

Ellison Wonderland 89%

A murder kit, a centaur wish, and a robot's return: stories that warp reality.

by Harlan Ellison 1962

3.99

1k+ ratings

🌀 Surreal Sci-Fi 🌟 Science Fantasy ↩️ Twist Endings 🤡 Absurdist Dilemmas 🪞 Identity Shift

Slow Gods

by Claire North • 2025

A debtor survives a procedure that should kill him. An ancient machine warns the galaxy will burn.

4.00

5k+

🚀 Philosophical Space Opera 👤 Immortal Outsider 🌌 Elegiac 🌍 Dying World 💥 Galactic Empire Collapse

Slow Gods 89%

A debtor survives a procedure that should kill him. An ancient machine warns the galaxy will burn.

by Claire North 2025

4.00

5k+ ratings

🚀 Philosophical Space Opera 👤 Immortal Outsider 🌌 Elegiac 🌍 Dying World 💥 Galactic Empire Collapse

Anathem

by Neal Stephenson • 2008

A cloistered scholar stumbles onto his order's secret: an alien ship from a parallel universe.

4.17

76k+

🏛️ Monastic Sci-Fi 🔬 Hard Science Fiction 👽 First Contact 🌌 Parallel Universes 🧠 Cerebral Sci-Fi

Anathem 89%

A cloistered scholar stumbles onto his order's secret: an alien ship from a parallel universe.

by Neal Stephenson 2008

4.17

76k+ ratings

🏛️ Monastic Sci-Fi 🔬 Hard Science Fiction 👽 First Contact 🌌 Parallel Universes 🧠 Cerebral Sci-Fi

City Like Water

by Dorothy Tse • 2026

When his sister is erased, a man navigates a dissolving city where remembering becomes defiance.

3.82

374

🏙️ Surrealist Dystopia 🇭🇰 Contemporary Hong Kong 📚 Political Allegory 🔎 Missing Sister 🗂️ Cultural Erasure

City Like Water 89%

When his sister is erased, a man navigates a dissolving city where remembering becomes defiance.

by Dorothy Tse 2026

3.82

374 ratings

🏙️ Surrealist Dystopia 🇭🇰 Contemporary Hong Kong 📚 Political Allegory 🔎 Missing Sister 🗂️ Cultural Erasure

Ghost Fleet

by P.W. Singer • 2015

China sinks America's Pacific Fleet. A mothballed armada of warships must sail to retake Hawaii.

3.76

12k+

🖥️ Techno-Thriller 🌏 Near-Future War 💻 Cyber Warfare ⚓ Naval Combat 🌊 Pacific Theater

Ghost Fleet 89%

China sinks America's Pacific Fleet. A mothballed armada of warships must sail to retake Hawaii.

by P.W. Singer 2015

3.76

12k+ ratings

🖥️ Techno-Thriller 🌏 Near-Future War 💻 Cyber Warfare ⚓ Naval Combat 🌊 Pacific Theater

Star Wars

by Kevin J. Anderson • 1996

Jabba the Hutt's underlings scheme for escape while a Jedi approaches to bring the palace down.

3.68

7k+

🔫 Criminal Underworld 📚 Shared World Anthology 🎭 Minor Characters 👑 Palace Intrigue ⛓️ Enslaved Characters

Star Wars 89%

Jabba the Hutt's underlings scheme for escape while a Jedi approaches to bring the palace down.

by Kevin J. Anderson 1996

3.68

7k+ ratings

🔫 Criminal Underworld 📚 Shared World Anthology 🎭 Minor Characters 👑 Palace Intrigue ⛓️ Enslaved Characters

Empire of Silence

by Christopher Ruocchio

Disowned and hunted, a nobleman fights in the gladiator pits of a backwater planet.

3.95

55k+

🏛️ Galactic Empire 👑 Fallen Noble 🤝 Found Family 👽 Alien Diplomacy 📜 Forbidden Knowledge

Empire of Silence 89%

Disowned and hunted, a nobleman fights in the gladiator pits of a backwater planet.

by Christopher Ruocchio 2018

3.95

55k+ ratings

🏛️ Galactic Empire 👑 Fallen Noble 🤝 Found Family 👽 Alien Diplomacy 📜 Forbidden Knowledge

Forward

by Blake Crouch • 2019

Six celebrated authors, one question: when technology overtakes us, what remains worth saving?

3.74

2k+

📚 Speculative Anthology 🤖 Ai Consciousness ⚡ Creator Versus Creation 🧬 Genetic Engineering 🧫 Cloning Ethics

Forward 92%

Six celebrated authors, one question: when technology overtakes us, what remains worth saving?

by Blake Crouch 2019

3.74

2k+ ratings

📚 Speculative Anthology 🤖 Ai Consciousness ⚡ Creator Versus Creation 🧬 Genetic Engineering 🧫 Cloning Ethics

Waste Tide

by Chen Qiufan • 2013

On an island of Chinese e-waste, a virus turns a migrant worker into a living network.

3.32

3k+

♻️ Eco-Cyberpunk 🧠 Networked Consciousness ✊ Class Uprising 🦠 Viral Transformation 🌃 Dark Near-Future

Waste Tide 91%

On an island of Chinese e-waste, a virus turns a migrant worker into a living network.

by Chen Qiufan 2013

3.32

3k+ ratings

♻️ Eco-Cyberpunk 🧠 Networked Consciousness ✊ Class Uprising 🦠 Viral Transformation 🌃 Dark Near-Future

Ender’s Game

by Orson Scott Card • 1985

A child prodigy is drafted to an orbital battle academy where war games determine humanity's fate.

4.31

1.5M+

🎓 Military Academy 👽 Alien War 🧠 Child Prodigy 🎭 Psychological Manipulation ⚔️ Strategic Warfare

Ender’s Game 89%

A child prodigy is drafted to an orbital battle academy where war games determine humanity's fate.

by Orson Scott Card 1985

4.31

1.5M+ ratings

🎓 Military Academy 👽 Alien War 🧠 Child Prodigy 🎭 Psychological Manipulation ⚔️ Strategic Warfare

Revelation Space

by Alastair Reynolds • 2000

A disgraced archaeologist unearths an alien genocide as a plague ship arrives to claim his mind.

3.99

62k+

🪐 Xenoarchaeology 🌌 Cosmic Horror 🚀 Gothic Spaceship 👾 Rogue Ai 🦠 Plague Ship

Revelation Space 89%

A disgraced archaeologist unearths an alien genocide as a plague ship arrives to claim his mind.

by Alastair Reynolds 2000

3.99

62k+ ratings

🪐 Xenoarchaeology 🌌 Cosmic Horror 🚀 Gothic Spaceship 👾 Rogue Ai 🦠 Plague Ship

From a Certain Point of View

by Elizabeth Schaefer • 2023

The Empire's fall, told by the droids, slaves, and schemers who lived it.

3.90

3k+

🌌 Star Wars Anthology 🧩 Mosaic Narrative 🔥 Redemption Arc 👪 Found Family 🤖 Droid Sentience

From a Certain Point of View 89%

The Empire's fall, told by the droids, slaves, and schemers who lived it.

by Elizabeth Schaefer 2023

3.90

3k+ ratings

🌌 Star Wars Anthology 🧩 Mosaic Narrative 🔥 Redemption Arc 👪 Found Family 🤖 Droid Sentience

The Mercy of Gods

by James S.A. Corey • 2024

His world decimated by alien conquerors, a scientist must prove his species deserves to survive.

4.15

42k+

🛸 First Contact Invasion 🔒 Alien Captivity ✊ Failed Rebellion 🧠 Reluctant Leader 🔬 Scientist Protagonists

The Mercy of Gods 89%

His world decimated by alien conquerors, a scientist must prove his species deserves to survive.

by James S.A. Corey 2024

4.15

42k+ ratings

🛸 First Contact Invasion 🔒 Alien Captivity ✊ Failed Rebellion 🧠 Reluctant Leader 🔬 Scientist Protagonists

The Terraformers

by Annalee Newitz • 2023

On a corporate world, a ranger uncovers a hidden city fighting to reshape the planet.

3.33

7k+

🌿 Ecological Sf 🪐 Terraformed Planet 🤖 Sentient Machines 🏢 Corporate Colonialism 🤝 Cross-Species Solidarity

The Terraformers 89%

On a corporate world, a ranger uncovers a hidden city fighting to reshape the planet.

by Annalee Newitz 2023

3.33

7k+ ratings

🌿 Ecological Sf 🪐 Terraformed Planet 🤖 Sentient Machines 🏢 Corporate Colonialism 🤝 Cross-Species Solidarity

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

by Christopher Paolini • 2020

An alien organism bonds with a scientist, granting her the language of the species destroying Earth.

3.80

71k+

🛸 First Contact War 🧬 Alien Symbiosis 🚀 Found Family Crew 🤝 Interspecies Alliance ⚔️ Interstellar War

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars 89%

An alien organism bonds with a scientist, granting her the language of the species destroying Earth.

by Christopher Paolini 2020

3.80

71k+ ratings

🛸 First Contact War 🧬 Alien Symbiosis 🚀 Found Family Crew 🤝 Interspecies Alliance ⚔️ Interstellar War

The Songs of Distant Earth

by Arthur C. Clarke • 1986

Earth's last ark reaches a water world. For an engineer, love makes departure an act of grief.

3.91

17k+

🔬 Hard Science Fiction 🌊 Water World 👽 First Contact 🧠 Emergent Intelligence 🚀 Interstellar Ark

The Songs of Distant Earth 89%

Earth's last ark reaches a water world. For an engineer, love makes departure an act of grief.

by Arthur C. Clarke 1986

3.91

17k+ ratings

🔬 Hard Science Fiction 🌊 Water World 👽 First Contact 🧠 Emergent Intelligence 🚀 Interstellar Ark

Radicalized

by Cory Doctorow • 2019

When her smart toaster bricks itself, a refugee discovers the whole building is a corporate jail.

4.03

8k+

🏙️ Near Future Dystopia 💻 Hacktivism 🧳 Refugee Resilience ✊ Youth-Led Resistance 🏢 Corporate Overreach

Radicalized 89%

When her smart toaster bricks itself, a refugee discovers the whole building is a corporate jail.

by Cory Doctorow 2019

4.03

8k+ ratings

🏙️ Near Future Dystopia 💻 Hacktivism 🧳 Refugee Resilience ✊ Youth-Led Resistance 🏢 Corporate Overreach

The Time Ships

by Stephen Baxter • 1995

A Victorian inventor discovers his time machine has splintered the future into warring worlds.

3.95

7k+

🔀 Quantum Multiverse 🕰️ Cosmic Time Travel ⚔️ Time War 🌍 Post-Human Earth 💔 Guilt And Atonement

The Time Ships 89%

A Victorian inventor discovers his time machine has splintered the future into warring worlds.

by Stephen Baxter 1995

3.95

7k+ ratings

🔀 Quantum Multiverse 🕰️ Cosmic Time Travel ⚔️ Time War 🌍 Post-Human Earth 💔 Guilt And Atonement

The Truce at Bakura

by Kathy Tyers • 1994

After Endor, Rebels ally with Imperials to save a colony from aliens who drain human souls.

3.47

14k+

🚀 Space Opera Adventure 👽 Alien Invasion 🤝 Enemies To Allies 🏠 Found Family 🌑 Temptation Of Power

The Truce at Bakura 89%

After Endor, Rebels ally with Imperials to save a colony from aliens who drain human souls.

by Kathy Tyers 1994

3.47

14k+ ratings

🚀 Space Opera Adventure 👽 Alien Invasion 🤝 Enemies To Allies 🏠 Found Family 🌑 Temptation Of Power

All Tomorrows

by Nemo Ramjet • 2006

Humanity colonizes the galaxy, then an ancient species breaks it into a thousand bizarre new forms.

4.16

11k+

🧬 Speculative Biology ⏳ Future History 🦴 Deep Time 🤖 Machine Intelligence 🫀 Body Horror

All Tomorrows 91%

Humanity colonizes the galaxy, then an ancient species breaks it into a thousand bizarre new forms.

by Nemo Ramjet 2006

4.16

11k+ ratings

🧬 Speculative Biology ⏳ Future History 🦴 Deep Time 🤖 Machine Intelligence 🫀 Body Horror

Wool Omnibus

by Hugh Howey • 2012

A buried silo's new sheriff finds the outside is a lie, a secret guarded by murder.

4.23

280k+

🏗️ Underground Society 🔍 Dystopian Mystery 🕳️ Claustrophobic 🔧 Working-Class Hero 🕸️ Political Conspiracy

Wool Omnibus 91%

A buried silo's new sheriff finds the outside is a lie, a secret guarded by murder.

by Hugh Howey 2012

4.23

280k+ ratings

🏗️ Underground Society 🔍 Dystopian Mystery 🕳️ Claustrophobic 🔧 Working-Class Hero 🕸️ Political Conspiracy

Lagoon

by Nnedi Okorafor

A shape-shifting ambassador walks out of the sea at Lagos, and the city turns on itself.

3.63

9k+

🛸 First Contact 🌍 Afrofuturism 🔥 Awakened Powers 🦎 Shape-Shifting Alien 🕸️ Indigenous Mythology

Lagoon 89%

A shape-shifting ambassador walks out of the sea at Lagos, and the city turns on itself.

by Nnedi Okorafor 2014

3.63

9k+ ratings

🛸 First Contact 🌍 Afrofuturism 🔥 Awakened Powers 🦎 Shape-Shifting Alien 🕸️ Indigenous Mythology

Seveneves

by Neal Stephenson • 2015

The moon shatters. Earth will burn. Seven women in orbit carry the last hope for humanity.

4.00

126k+

🚀 Hard Science Fiction 🧬 Genetic Engineering 🛰️ Survival In Space 🔧 Engineer Protagonists 🏗️ Civilization Building

Seveneves 89%

The moon shatters. Earth will burn. Seven women in orbit carry the last hope for humanity.

by Neal Stephenson 2015

4.00

126k+ ratings

🚀 Hard Science Fiction 🧬 Genetic Engineering 🛰️ Survival In Space 🔧 Engineer Protagonists 🏗️ Civilization Building

The Doors of Eden

by Adrian Tchaikovsky • 2020

When her lover vanishes into another Earth, a cryptozoologist must save parallel worlds from ruin.

3.87

11k+

🌍 Parallel Worlds 🧬 Alternate Evolution 💕 Sapphic Romance 💔 Lost And Found Love 🪐 Cosmic Scale

The Doors of Eden 89%

When her lover vanishes into another Earth, a cryptozoologist must save parallel worlds from ruin.

by Adrian Tchaikovsky 2020

3.87

11k+ ratings

🌍 Parallel Worlds 🧬 Alternate Evolution 💕 Sapphic Romance 💔 Lost And Found Love 🪐 Cosmic Scale

The Cyberiad

by Stanisław Lem • 1965

Two brilliant robots wander the galaxy building machines that turn logic puzzles into cosmic chaos.

4.13

14k+

🧙‍♂️ Science Fiction Fables 🪐 Satirical Sci-Fi 🤡 Absurdist Humor 🧠 Intellectual Hubris 🏚️ Failed Utopias

The Cyberiad 89%

Two brilliant robots wander the galaxy building machines that turn logic puzzles into cosmic chaos.

by Stanisław Lem 1965

4.13

14k+ ratings

🧙‍♂️ Science Fiction Fables 🪐 Satirical Sci-Fi 🤡 Absurdist Humor 🧠 Intellectual Hubris 🏚️ Failed Utopias

Mickey7

by Edward Ashton • 2022

An expendable colonist survives a mission and returns to find his duplicate already living his life.

3.78

58k+

🧠 Consciousness Transfer 👥 Accidental Duplicate 👽 Sentient Aliens 🤝 First Contact 🪐 Colony Sci-Fi

Mickey7 89%

An expendable colonist survives a mission and returns to find his duplicate already living his life.

by Edward Ashton 2022

3.78

58k+ ratings

🧠 Consciousness Transfer 👥 Accidental Duplicate 👽 Sentient Aliens 🤝 First Contact 🪐 Colony Sci-Fi

Shards of a Shattered Mirror Book I

by Darryl Anka • 2017

She glimpses every future in shattered light, but an alien empire has already chosen one.

4.53

150

🪐 Science Fantasy ⭐ Chosen One 🔮 Parallel Realities ⚔️ Resistance Rebellion 🌌 Cosmic Mystery

Shards of a Shattered Mirror Book I Summary

Shards of a Shattered Mirror Book I 88%

She glimpses every future in shattered light, but an alien empire has already chosen one.

by Darryl Anka 2017

4.53

150 ratings

🪐 Science Fantasy ⭐ Chosen One 🔮 Parallel Realities ⚔️ Resistance Rebellion 🌌 Cosmic Mystery

A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor

by Hank Green • 2020

A sentient book sends April's friends searching for her inside the virtual world consuming humanity.

4.23

57k+

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A sentient book sends April's friends searching for her inside the virtual world consuming humanity.

by Hank Green 2020

4.23

57k+ ratings

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by Abe Moss • 2022

Her father dragged her through a cosmic void. His machine needs her power to unmake reality.

4.46

251

🖤 Cosmic Horror 🌌 Dimension Hopping 🤝 Found Family 🔥 Dangerous Powers ⚗️ Science Fantasy

Across the Haunted Stars 88%

Her father dragged her through a cosmic void. His machine needs her power to unmake reality.

by Abe Moss 2022

4.46

251 ratings

🖤 Cosmic Horror 🌌 Dimension Hopping 🤝 Found Family 🔥 Dangerous Powers ⚗️ Science Fantasy

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by Phillip P. Peterson • 2015

Probes vanish beyond Pluto. A claustrophobic physicist boards a ship to find what blocks the stars.

4.09

3k+

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Paradox - On the Brink of Eternity Summary

Paradox - On the Brink of Eternity 88%

Probes vanish beyond Pluto. A claustrophobic physicist boards a ship to find what blocks the stars.

by Phillip P. Peterson 2015

4.09

3k+ ratings

🔬 Hard Sf Mystery 🛰️ Megastructure Encounter 👽 First Contact 🏢 Corporate Space Race 🤖 Ancient Guardian Ai

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