Science Fiction
Stories that imagine future technologies, distant worlds or alternate timelines, and use them to ask what might happen to people and society.
Absolution Gap
While humanity searches for help against the Inhibitors, a religious movement follows moving cathedrals across the moon Hela and watches the gas giant Haldora for an impossible sign.
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After the Fall
A century after alien grays reduced humanity to bonded dependents, John learns the limits of friendship when his gray companion Martok wagers John's bond on a failed wilderness business.
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All Systems Red
A self-aware security unit that has secretly disabled its governor module would rather watch entertainment than explain itself, but a survey mission in corporate space is becoming dangerously unreliable.
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Armada
Ernest Cline’s Armada follows gamer Zack Lightman as a supposed UFO invasion drags his joystick reflexes into a global defense program.
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Artificial Condition
Murderbot travels toward the mining facility where its worst memories began and forms an uneasy alliance with a powerful research transport while protecting a group of scientists caught in a corporate dispute.
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Belladonna Nights and Other Stories
This wide-ranging collection moves from the House of Suns and Revelation Space universes to independent tales of planets, machines, memory, horror, hope, and darkly playful speculation.
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Beyond the Aquila Rift
This career-spanning collection brings together Reynolds's major novellas and stories, including Revelation Space histories, deep-time journeys, cosmic horror, machine minds, and intimate speculative tragedies.
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Blue Remembered Earth
After matriarch Eunice Akinya dies, grandchildren Geoffrey and Sunday follow clues across a prosperous African-led solar system, uncovering a secret their powerful family wants contained.
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Bone Silence
Hunted for crimes they did not commit, the Ness sisters pursue the truth behind quoins, power, and the ancient machinery of the Congregation in the conclusion to the Revenger trilogy.
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Brave New World
Brave New World imagines a future engineered society where comfort, conditioning, and consumer rituals replace freedom.
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Catching Fire
Catching Fire widens Panem’s unrest as Katniss and Peeta face a lethal victory tour and a Quarter Quell designed to crush rebellion.
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Century Rain
Future archaeologist Verity Auger enters a hidden version of 1959 Paris, where jazz musician and private investigator Wendell Floyd is pursuing a murder tied to realities neither fully understands.
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Chasm City
Security specialist Tanner Mirabel crosses interstellar space to hunt Argent Reivich through Chasm City, a former technological paradise deformed by plague and divided by extreme inequality.
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Children of Ruin
Humans and Portiid spiders investigate a lost terraforming mission where uplifted octopuses and an invasive alien intelligence have created a dangerous new problem of communication.
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Children of Strife
Scientist Alis, mantis-shrimp captain Cato, and the AI Kern search a rediscovered terraforming outpost after the rest of their crew vanishes, exposing a refuge shaped by old vanity and new danger.
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Children of Time
Humanity's last ark approaches a terraformed world where uplifted spiders have built a civilization, forcing two evolutionary histories toward contact, conflict, and an uncertain shared future.
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Congo
After a Congo expedition is destroyed near the lost city of Zinj, a new team enters the rainforest with Amy, a gorilla who communicates through signs and may hold the key to the ruins' violent guardians.
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Contact
Radio astronomer Ellie Arroway helps identify a signal from Vega whose mathematical structure forces scientists, governments, and religious leaders to decide what evidence of another intelligence would demand from humanity.
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Death of the Author
After losing her university job and facing another rejection, Zelu writes a far-future robot epic that transforms her career while complicating her relationships, identity, and control over her own story.
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Deception Point
Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton is sent to verify a NASA discovery buried in Arctic ice, only to uncover scientific fraud, political manipulation, and killers determined to protect the deception.
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Deep Navigation
This collection gathers early and previously scattered Reynolds stories, moving from Antarctic isolation and ecological games to alien rescue, deep-time revenge, and Revelation Space side tales.
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Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days
Two novellas explore an alien tower that punishes failed solutions with bodily sacrifice and an oceanic intelligence whose stored minds become the center of a dangerous human conflict.
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Digital Fortress
NSA cryptographer Susan Fletcher confronts an apparently unbreakable code that threatens the agency's surveillance power, forcing her to question secrecy, loyalty, and who controls digital privacy.
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Doctor Who: The Harvest of Time
As UNIT investigates a North Sea platform and people begin forgetting the imprisoned Master, the Third Doctor and Jo Grant confront the time-manipulating Sild at the end of history.
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Drug of Choice
Doctor Roger Clark investigates patients arriving in a mysterious euphoric coma and follows the evidence toward a private island resort, experimental chemistry, and a corporation selling manufactured escape.
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Dune
A sweeping Arrakis saga where noble houses, desert survival, and prescient power struggles collide in genre defining fashion.
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Elysium Fire
When citizens across the Glitter Band begin dying as their neural implants fail, Tom Dreyfus and Panoply must trace the crisis through political unrest, manipulated memories, and a dangerous hidden agenda.
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Eruption
As Mauna Loa approaches a catastrophic eruption, volcanologist John MacGregor discovers that a secret military containment site may create a disaster even more destructive than the volcano itself.
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Eversion
Ship's doctor Silas Coade repeatedly joins expeditions toward an impossible alien structure, with each attempt unfolding in a different kind of vessel and making reality itself part of the mystery.
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Exit Strategy
Murderbot returns to help Dr. Mensah after GrayCris turns the corporate system against her, forcing a rescue that tests both its tactical skill and its resistance to being treated as a person.
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Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451 tracks fireman Guy Montag as he begins questioning a future America that burns books to protect comfort over curiosity.
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Forever Free
William Mandella, Marygay, and other veterans living apart from postwar humanity make a desperate plan to recover control of their future, only to face a mystery larger than the old conflict.
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Forever Peace
Physicist and remote-combat operator Julian Class confronts the human cost of piloting soldierboy machines while a scientific project threatens consequences on a universal scale.
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Frankenstein
Victor Frankenstein creates living consciousness and immediately abandons it, beginning a cycle of loneliness, revenge, and moral failure between creator and creature.
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Fugitive Telemetry
A dead traveler on Preservation Station pulls Murderbot into a murder investigation with station security, where surveillance gaps and institutional distrust matter more than superior firepower.
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Galactic North
Eight stories span centuries of the Revelation Space universe, tracing Conjoiners, Demarchists, Ultras, medical horrors, alien artifacts, and the long transformation of humanity.
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Golden Son
This Golden Son review follows Darrow as the Red Rising rebellion explodes into solar system politics, betrayal, and brutal war, raising the stakes far beyond the first book.
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Halcyon Years
Private investigator Yuri Gagarin takes a suspicious-death case aboard the generation ship Halcyon and is pulled between two mysterious women, elite families, and nested secrets.
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Hell's Heart
In a dead solar system powered by fluid harvested from giant Jovian leviathans, a broke narrator joins the Pequod and falls into a captain's obsessive hunt and a fragile bond with Q.
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House of Suns
Six million years in the future, clone shatterlings Campion and Purslane arrive late to a reunion and discover that nearly every member of Abigail Gentian's galactic line has been murdered.
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Inhibitor Phase
A hidden community survives under the threat of the Inhibitors until the arrival of a stranger forces its leader into a mission that may offer humanity one last chance against extinction.
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Isles of the Emberdark
Sixth of the Dusk and dragon Starling pursue separate paths into the emberdark, where portals, galactic powers, and dangerous bargains threaten the independence of their peoples.
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Jitterbug
A fast-moving space opera that balances galaxy-scale danger with an intimate emotional core, following damaged people and machines through a widening crisis.
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Jurassic Park
A group of scientists and children visits an island theme park populated by cloned dinosaurs, only to discover that its genetic engineering, automation, and corporate safeguards cannot contain a living ecosystem.
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Machine Vendetta
The suspicious death of Prefect Ingvar Tench draws Tom Dreyfus into a case where Panoply's old enemies, machine intelligence, and the Glitter Band's fragile democracy collide.
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Mickey7
Mickey7 is an 'Expendable': a disposable employee sent on suicide missions to colonize an ice planet. When one version dies, a new body is printed with most of his memories. But when Mickey7 survives and returns to find Mickey8 already in his bed, he must hide his existence to avoid being recycled for protein.
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Micro
Graduate researchers recruited by a Hawaiian biotechnology company are reduced to microscopic scale and abandoned in the rainforest, where insects, plants, weather, and engineered tools become overwhelming threats.
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Mockingjay
Mockingjay trades arena combat for open war as Katniss becomes the face of a revolution built on propaganda, sacrifice, and resilience.
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Network Effect
When a familiar research transport attacks a Preservation survey party and carries several people away, Murderbot must untangle alien contamination, missing memories, and a friendship neither machine finds easy to name.
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Next
Interlocking stories about gene patents, biotechnology companies, transgenic animals, researchers, and families explore what happens when fragments of living identity can be discovered, owned, sold, and stolen.
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On the Steel Breeze
Three versions of Chiku Akinya pursue different paths as generation ships approach Crucible, an artificial intelligence tightens its influence, and an alien structure waits on humanity's intended home.
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Origin
Futurist Edmond Kirsch prepares an announcement addressing humanity's origins and destiny, but violence forces Robert Langdon and Ambra Vidal to preserve the discovery while crossing modern Spain.
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Permafrost
In a climate-ravaged 2080, an aging teacher joins a desperate project that reaches into 2028 through the mind of a young woman, risking causality in an attempt to give humanity another future.
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Platform Decay
Murderbot volunteers for a rescue on a hostile corporate station, only to discover that protecting unfamiliar humans—including children—requires more improvisation and emotional contact than expected.
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Poseidon's Wake
A message from seventy light-years away calls for Ndege Akinya, sending her daughter Goma toward Crucible while human, machine, and elephant intelligences face an ancient invitation.
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Prey
Software engineer Jack Forman enters a remote Nevada facility where an escaped swarm of self-organizing nanoparticles is learning from predators, adapting to containment, and imitating the people trying to stop it.
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Project Hail Mary
This Project Hail Mary review follows Ryland Grace, a lone astronaut who wakes up far from Earth with no memory and has to solve a star killing mystery, forge an unlikely friendship and decide what a successful mission really means.
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Pushing Ice
When Saturn's moon Janus abruptly leaves orbit, the ice-mining ship Rockhopper begins a pursuit that strands its crew inside a first-contact mystery extending into the deep future.
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Red Rising
This Red Rising review looks at Darrow's Mars rebellion, where a lowborn Red is remade as a Gold and pushed into a deadly Institute to turn the ruling caste's own war games against them.
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Redemption Ark
As the Inhibitors begin erasing human settlements, Conjoiner veteran Nevil Clavain defects to stop Skade from controlling weapons that may offer humanity its only chance to resist.
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Revelation Space
Archaeologist Dan Sylveste investigates the extinction of the Amarantin while the damaged starship Nostalgia for Infinity and assassin Ana Khouri converge on him for very different reasons.
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Revenger
Sisters Arafura and Adrana Ness join a treasure-hunting ship, only for a notorious pirate to tear their lives apart and force Fura into a dangerous pursuit across an ancient, fragmented solar system.
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Rogue Protocol
Searching for evidence against GrayCris, Murderbot infiltrates an abandoned terraforming facility and encounters a well-meaning security bot whose trust in humans challenges its practiced suspicion.
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Shadow Captain
Fura and Adrana Ness command their own ship but remain trapped by Bosa Sennen's legacy, growing distrust, and a mystery surrounding the currency that holds their fragmented civilization together.
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Shards of Earth
Decades after humanity survived the planet-destroying Architects, enhanced navigator Idris Telemmier and the salvage ship Vulture God discover evidence that the enemy has returned.
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Shroud
Scientists Juna and Mai are stranded on a lightless, high-gravity world whose alien life perceives reality in ways that make survival and first contact equally difficult.
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Slow Bullets
Soldier Scur awakens aboard a damaged prison ship with former enemies, failing records, and no reliable path home, forcing survivors to decide what history their new society can preserve.
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Sphere
A team of specialists descends to a deep-sea habitat to investigate an enormous spacecraft discovered on the ocean floor, where an apparently impossible sphere turns fear and imagination into physical danger.
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State of Fear
Attorney Peter Evans becomes involved in a pursuit of extremists attempting to manufacture natural disasters, while the novel builds a controversial argument about climate science, environmental advocacy, and media fear.
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System Collapse
Still recovering from the events on the alien-contaminated planet, Murderbot tries to protect colonists from corporate acquisition while its own unreliable performance becomes part of the danger.
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Terminal World
Pathologist Quillon flees the vertical city of Spearpoint with an angel's secret, crossing zones where different technologies function and the world itself resists a single explanation.
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The Andromeda Strain
After a satellite falls near an Arizona town and almost every resident dies, a team of scientists enters an underground laboratory to identify an extraterrestrial microorganism before containment fails.
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The Compound
This The Compound review follows Lily and nineteen contestants trapped in a desert reality show where luxury prizes and basic necessities blur into a ruthless, televised fight for comfort and survival.
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The Forest on the Edge of Time
A time-travel climate novel about family, duty, and a forest positioned at the boundary between threatened worlds and possible futures.
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The Forever War
Conscript William Mandella fights an interstellar war against the Taurans, but relativistic travel means that every campaign carries him farther from the Earth and culture he remembers.
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The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games ignites a televised survival trial that turns Katniss Everdeen into the reluctant face of rebellion.
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The Iron Tactician
The wandering spacefarer Merlin discovers a derelict swallowship and becomes entangled in an old strategic conflict where machines, memory, and survival make every apparent victory suspect.
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The Lost World
Ian Malcolm joins an expedition to Isla Sorna, the abandoned production site for Jurassic Park, where free-ranging dinosaurs, ecological instability, and a rival genetics team turn research into survival.
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The Martian
The Martian chronicles astronaut Mark Watney’s fight to survive on Mars using chemistry, engineering, and relentless optimism.
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The Medusa Chronicles
Augmented explorer Howard Falcon crosses centuries of expansion, artificial-intelligence conflict, and repeated returns to Jupiter in this continuation of Arthur C. Clarke's A Meeting with Medusa.
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The Prefect (Aurora Rising)
Prefect Tom Dreyfus investigates the destruction of a Glitter Band habitat and uncovers a threat capable of turning the networked democracy's own systems against its citizens.
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The Secret of Secrets
In Prague, Robert Langdon attends noetic scientist Katherine Solomon's lecture before a murder, her disappearance, and a stolen manuscript pull him into a conspiracy about human consciousness.
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The Sentence
A speculative legal novel that places punishment, rights, and institutional power under pressure through a sentence whose consequences force difficult questions about justice and human agency.
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The Sunlit Man
A fugitive known as Nomad lands on Canticle, a planet whose lethal sunrise forces entire cities to keep moving, and must decide whether survival is enough when local people need his help.
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The Terminal Man
Doctors implant electrodes in Harry Benson's brain to control violent seizures, but his mind begins adapting to the stimulation and turns an experimental treatment into an escalating danger.
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The Three-Body Problem
The Three-Body Problem follows scientists, soldiers, and disillusioned idealists from the Chinese Cultural Revolution to the present as a secret first contact with the unstable Trisolaran star system turns physics itself into a warning that an alien invasion is on the way.
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Timeline
Archaeology students use a corporation's quantum technology to reach fourteenth-century France and rescue their professor, discovering that the medieval world they studied is immediate, violent, and resistant to prediction.
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When We Were Real
Two friends join a cross-country bus tour of glitches in their simulated world, turning a strange vacation into an intimate reckoning with illness, secrets, friendship, and reality.
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Zima Blue and Other Stories
This collection gathers Reynolds's science fiction beyond Revelation Space, including stories of robotic art, failed communication, war, isolation, memory, and survival on immense cosmic scales.
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