Science Fiction

Absolution Gap

The Inhibitor Trilogy, Book 3

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

After the Fall

A Novel

By Edward Ashton

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.

All Systems Red

The Murderbot Diaries, Book 1

By Martha Wells

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.

Armada

A Novel

By Ernest Cline

Ernest Cline’s Armada follows gamer Zack Lightman as a supposed UFO invasion drags his joystick reflexes into a global defense program.

Artificial Condition

The Murderbot Diaries, Book 2

By Martha Wells

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.

Belladonna Nights and Other Stories

A Collection

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

Beyond the Aquila Rift

The Best of Alastair Reynolds

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

Blue Remembered Earth

Poseidon's Children, Book 1

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

Bone Silence

The Revenger Trilogy, Book 3

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

Brave New World

Dystopian Classic Review

By Aldous Huxley

Brave New World imagines a future engineered society where comfort, conditioning, and consumer rituals replace freedom.

Catching Fire

Book 2 of The Hunger Games Trilogy

By Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire expands the unrest across Panem as Katniss and Peeta face a victory tour and a Quarter Quell designed to contain rebellion.

Century Rain

A Novel

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

Chasm City

A Revelation Space Novel

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

Children of Ruin

Children of Time, Book 2

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

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.

Children of Strife

A Children of Time Novel

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

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.

Children of Time

Children of Time, Book 1

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

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.

Congo

A Novel

By Michael Crichton

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.

Contact

A Novel

By Carl Sagan

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.

Death of the Author

A Novel

By Nnedi Okorafor

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.

Deception Point

A Thriller

By Dan Brown

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.

Deep Navigation

A Collection

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

Diamond Dogs, Turquoise Days

Two Revelation Space Novellas

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

Digital Fortress

A Thriller

By Dan Brown

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.

Doctor Who: The Harvest of Time

A Third Doctor Novel

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

Drug of Choice

A John Lange Novel

By Michael Crichton

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.

Dune

Epic Science Fiction Classic

By Frank Herbert

Paul Atreides enters a struggle over Arrakis, where control of spice depends on politics, desert survival, and the Fremen people his family barely understands.

Elysium Fire

Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies, Book 2

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

Eruption

With James Patterson

By Michael Crichton

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.

Eversion

A Novel

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

Exit Strategy

The Murderbot Diaries, Book 4

By Martha Wells

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.

Fahrenheit 451

Classic Dystopian Fiction Review

By Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451 tracks fireman Guy Montag as he begins questioning a future America that burns books to protect comfort over curiosity.

Forever Free

The Forever War, Book 2

By Joe Haldeman

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.

Forever Peace

A Standalone Companion Novel

By Joe Haldeman

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.

Frankenstein

Or, The Modern Prometheus

By Mary Shelley

Victor Frankenstein creates living consciousness and immediately abandons it, beginning a cycle of loneliness, revenge, and moral failure between creator and creature.

Fugitive Telemetry

The Murderbot Diaries, Book 6

By Martha Wells

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.

Galactic North

Stories from the Revelation Space Universe

By Alastair Reynolds

Eight stories span centuries of the Revelation Space universe, tracing Conjoiners, Demarchists, Ultras, medical horrors, alien artifacts, and the long transformation of humanity.

Golden Son

Book 2 of the Red Rising Saga

By Pierce Brown

Darrow’s rebellion explodes into solar-system politics, betrayal, and brutal war, raising the stakes far beyond Red Rising.

Halcyon Years

A Novel

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

Hell's Heart

A Novel

By Alexis Hall

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.

House of Suns

A Novel

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

Inhibitor Phase

A Revelation Space Novel

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

Isles of the Emberdark

A Cosmere Novel

By Brandon Sanderson

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.

Jitterbug

A Novel

By Gareth L. Powell

A fast-moving space opera that balances galaxy-scale danger with an intimate emotional core, following damaged people and machines through a widening crisis.

Jurassic Park

Jurassic Park, Book 1

By Michael Crichton

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.

Machine Vendetta

Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies, Book 3

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

Mickey7

A Novel

By Edward Ashton

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.

Micro

Completed by Richard Preston

By Michael Crichton

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.

Mockingjay

Book 3 of The Hunger Games Trilogy

By Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay moves the trilogy from arena survival to war as Katniss becomes the public face of a revolution shaped by propaganda and sacrifice.

Network Effect

The Murderbot Diaries, Book 5

By Martha Wells

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.

Next

A Novel

By Michael Crichton

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.

On the Steel Breeze

Poseidon's Children, Book 2

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

Origin

Robert Langdon, Book 5

By Dan Brown

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.

Permafrost

A Novella

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

Platform Decay

The Murderbot Diaries, Book 8

By Martha Wells

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.

Poseidon's Wake

Poseidon's Children, Book 3

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

Prey

A Novel

By Michael Crichton

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.

Project Hail Mary

A Novel

By Andy Weir

Ryland Grace wakes far from Earth with no memory, then must solve a star-killing mystery, forge an unlikely friendship, and decide what a successful mission really means.

Pushing Ice

A Novel

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

Red Rising

Book 1 of the Red Rising Saga

By Pierce Brown

A lowborn Red miner is remade as a Gold and sent into the Institute, where he must navigate the ruling caste’s war games and alliances.

Redemption Ark

The Inhibitor Trilogy, Book 2

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

Revelation Space

The Inhibitor Trilogy, Book 1

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

Revenger

The Revenger Trilogy, Book 1

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

Rogue Protocol

The Murderbot Diaries, Book 3

By Martha Wells

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.

Scion

Scion, Book 1

By James Islington

In a future where the wealthy can pursue indefinite life extension, genetically enhanced contract killer Azure receives an unfamiliar protection assignment tied to organized crime and disruptive technology.

Shadow Captain

The Revenger Trilogy, Book 2

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

Shards of Earth

The Final Architecture, Book 1

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

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.

Shroud

A Novel

By Adrian Tchaikovsky

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.

Slow Bullets

A Novella

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

Sphere

A Novel

By Michael Crichton

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.

State of Fear

A Novel

By Michael Crichton

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.

System Collapse

The Murderbot Diaries, Book 7

By Martha Wells

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.

Terminal World

A Novel

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

The Andromeda Strain

A Novel

By Michael Crichton

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.

The Compound

A GMA Book Club Pick

By Aisling Rawle

Lily and nineteen contestants enter a desert reality show where luxury prizes and basic necessities blur into a ruthless, televised fight for comfort and survival.

The Dog Stars

By Peter Heller

After a pandemic leaves him living at a Colorado airfield, Hig flies the surrounding country in a 1956 Cessna until a radio transmission suggests that another future may be possible beyond his guarded perimeter.

The Forest on the Edge of Time

A Novel

By Jasmin Kirkbride

A time-travel climate novel about family, duty, and a forest positioned at the boundary between threatened worlds and possible futures.

The Forever War

The Forever War, Book 1

By Joe Haldeman

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.

The Hunger Games

Book 1 of The Hunger Games Trilogy

By Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games ignites a televised survival trial that turns Katniss Everdeen into the reluctant face of rebellion.

The Iron Tactician

A Merlin Novella

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

The Lost World

Jurassic Park, Book 2

By Michael Crichton

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.

The Martian

Hard Science Fiction Survival Review

By Andy Weir

The Martian chronicles astronaut Mark Watney’s fight to survive on Mars using chemistry, engineering, and relentless optimism.

The Medusa Chronicles

With Stephen Baxter

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

The Prefect (Aurora Rising)

Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies, Book 1

By Alastair Reynolds

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.

The Secret of Secrets

Robert Langdon, Book 6

By Dan Brown

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.

The Sentence

A Novel

By Gautam Bhatia

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.

The Sunlit Man

A Cosmere Novel

By Brandon Sanderson

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.

The Terminal Man

A Novel

By Michael Crichton

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.

The Three-Body Problem

Book 1 of the Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy

By Liu Cixin

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.

Timeline

A Novel

By Michael Crichton

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.

When We Were Real

A Novel

By Daryl Gregory

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.

Zima Blue and Other Stories

A Collection

By Alastair Reynolds

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.