Books like 'Dead Space'
Readers who enjoyed Dead Space by Antony Johnston & Ben Templesmith also liked the following books featuring the same tropes, story themes, relationship dynamics and character types.
sc-fi horror monsters/creatures space cosmic-horror action-adventure aliens drama
-
Extinction Darkness by Nicholas Sansbury Smith, Anthony J. Melchiorri
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe thrilling adventure continues in book 4 of the Extinction Cycle: Dark Age. After devastating losses and new intel about the enemy, Central Command is running out of options to prevent the total collapse of the Allied States. A scientific breakthrough and new allies might be the only hope of saving the country, and the world... -
![Escape From The Center Of The Earth by Greig Beck]()
Escape From The Center Of The Earth by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEscape from the Center of the Earth is the final edition of the blockbusting Center Earth trilogy, closing with a mind-bending climax.'Help me, it’s Ally. Please help me.'A ghostly, sobbing voice is detected from the depths of Russia’s Kola super deep borehole – 9 miles down. A Russian team is dispatched in a desperate rescue mission to find the woman... -
![Warriors by Nicholas Sansbury Smith]()
Warriors by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe New York Times and USA Today bestselling seriesWhile the Hell Divers cross an ocean to battle the machines, an old flesh-and-blood threat returns to the islands.The mission to Rio de Janeiro ended in victory, but it came at a dire cost, killing most of those who set out to rescue the stranded survivors... -
![Captives by Nicholas Sansbury Smith]()
Captives by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHumanity has finally found a new home, but the price is blood ...After a long, perilous journey, Hell Divers Xavier Rodriguez and Magnolia Katib discover the Metal Islands, a sunny habitable zone where thousands of people live by fishing and farming. But this "paradise" is really a violent warrior society ruled by the cannibal king el Pulpo... -
-
![Xenofall by Kyle West]()
Xenofall by Kyle West
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith the final battle looming, the fate of the humanity will be decided. Alex Keener, Elekim, will face down Askala, the Radaskim Xenomind.But as Askala unleashes her final fury, the road to Ragnarok can only be paved with grit...and lives.In this explosive conclusion to The Wasteland Chronicles, Alex will rise to the mantle of Elekim.. -
![Allegiance by Nicholas Sansbury Smith]()
Allegiance by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThe war for the Metal Islands is over, but the search for survivors has just begun.After a long and bloody battle, legendary Hell Diver Xavier Rodriguez reigns as the dutiful but reluctant new king of the islands. Advised by a council of former sky citizens as well as Cazadores, he works to assimilate the two societies peacefully. But not all Cazadores have accepted the new order... -
![Gun Runner by Larry Correia, John D. Brown]()
Gun Runner by Larry Correia, John D. Brown
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTHRILLING SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURE FROM BEST-SELLING AUTHORS LARRY CORREIA AND JOHN D. BROWNTHE HEART OF A WARRIOR Once, Jackson Rook was a war hero. Raised from boyhood to pilot an exosuit mech, he’d fought gallantly for the rebellion against the Collectivists. But that was a long time ago, on a world very far away... -
![Darkness by Kyle West]()
Darkness by Kyle West
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Vegas Exodus is at a standstill...Besieged by the Xenoswarm in the town Pyrite, they must shelter in either Bunker 108 or Bunker 84 if they are to survive the winter.But in Bunker 84 lurks a darkness that could end the Exodus. And it may also be that the denizens of Bunker 84, known as "The Community," are not as isolated from the events of the Wasteland as it first appears... -
![Extinction by Kyle West]()
Extinction by Kyle West
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTime is running out for humanity to defeat the encroaching forces of the Radaskim...As settlements fall and the Great Blight spreads, it falls on the New Angels to unite disparate factions before it is too late. But the dark Xenomind, Askala, has her own plans to end humanity before that can ever happen.Only the greatest sacrifice can stop her from achieving her aims.. -
![Dial D for Deadman by Barry J. Hutchison]()
Dial D for Deadman by Barry J. Hutchison
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Space Team Universe just got a whole lot darker. In an alien city torn apart by crooked cops and ruthless criminals, private detective, Dan Deadman, specializes in cases unusual and bizarre... -
![Terminal Uprising by Jim C. Hines]()
Terminal Uprising by Jim C. Hines
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt’s been four months since Marion “Mops” Adamopoulos learned the truth. Four months since she and her team of hygiene and sanitation specialists stole the EMCS Pufferfish and stopped a bioterrorism attack against the Krakau homeworld. Four months since she set out to find proof of what really happened on Earth all those years ago... -
![The Season of Passage by Christopher Pike]()
The Season of Passage by Christopher Pike
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDr. Lauren Wagner was a celebrity. She was involved with the most exciting adventure mankind had ever undertaken. The whole world admired and respected her.But Lauren knew fear.Inside voices entreating her to love them.Outside — the mystery of the missing group that had gone before her. The dead group... -
![Alien by Alan Dean Foster]()
Alien by Alan Dean Foster
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBased on the screenplay by Dan O'Bannon. The crew of the spaceship Nostromo wake from cryogenic sleep to distress signals from an unknown planet. One is attacked when they investigate a derelict alien craft. Safely on their way back to Sol, none foresee the real horror about to begin... -
![The Skinner by Neal Asher]()
The Skinner by Neal Asher
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsNeal Asher, whom Tor introduced to the American audience with Gridlinked, takes us deeper into his unique universe with an even more remarkable second novel, The Skinner... -
-
![Aliens by Alan Dean Foster]()
Aliens by Alan Dean Foster
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsHaving survived one encounter with an alien, Ripley is persuaded to return to the planet where her crew found the alien ship. A colony has been established there, but suddenly all contact with the settlers has been lost. Accompanied by marines, Ripley is going to find out why... -
![Kept From the Deep by Octavia Kore]()
Kept From the Deep by Octavia Kore
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA forgotten past, a tormented present, and a future in jeopardy. She’s been abducted from Earth, experimented on in the Grutex labs, and thrown into the path of not just one massive alien mate, but two. As a Filipina nurse living in America, she isn’t a stranger to adapting to unusual situations, but nothing could have prepared her for what’s to come... -
![Gods of Rust and Ruin by Azalea Ellis]()
Gods of Rust and Ruin by Azalea Ellis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMy name is Eve Redding. They call me the godkiller. I was dying. Slowly being destroyed by the power I had worked so hard to obtain. My team and I were trapped within NIX’s web of lies and manipulation, and even my allies couldn’t be trusted. Deep below, the alien called out to me like a beacon, and I decided to forge an alliance. As they say, the enemy of my enemy is my friend... -
![The Colour Out Of Space: With The Essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature" by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Colour Out Of Space: With The Essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature" by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsFirst published in 1927, "The Colour Out of Space" is H. P. Lovecraft's signature science-fiction horror story, finely presented here in a single volume with Lovecraft's landmark essay on "weird" fiction, "Supernatural Horror in Literature" - a must-read for all students and lovers of horror. Quixotic Books are reprints of important classic and historic texts, handsomely formatted and presented... -
![Legion by Penelope Fletcher]()
Legion by Penelope Fletcher
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Despite the eons and galaxies between us, know that we were destined to be." ~ Legion, He Who Cannot be Eaten Legion, burdened by a profound loneliness as the sole member of his species demands procurement of a mate. Serenvox, a wayward privateer, delivers Sadie Yi, a resilient survivor of the Aztekan Horde and a human hailing from Earth... -
![An Anatomy of Beasts by Olivia A. Cole]()
An Anatomy of Beasts by Olivia A. Cole
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the forty years since the Vagantur landed on Faloiv, the planet has existed in a tenuous peace between the humans who live in the enclosed community of N’Terra and the Faloii, the indigenous population. But after uncovering the shadowy secrets of the Council’s newly elected leader and helping a kidnapped Faloii man escape, sixteen-year-old Octavia knows that conflict is looming... -
![Heart's Prisoner by Olivia Riley]()
Heart's Prisoner by Olivia Riley
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsHe's not like anything Lana has ever encountered.Asset X: Massive, deadly, a little terrifying to say the least. A devilish warrior. And a killer. Captured on a hellish world after attacking a military campsite and now imprisoned in a state-of-the-art cell inside one of the military’s top bases--Lazris.And Lana has been assigned to "study" him... -
![Gods of Blood and Bone by Azalea Ellis]()
Gods of Blood and Bone by Azalea Ellis
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMy name is Eve Redding. I am the new god. They captured me in a dirty alley and injected me with a virtual reality chip, a GPS tracker, and my first Seed. They made me a Player. At first, I loved the miraculous ability to level up anything about myself... -
![The Military Form by Christopher Rowley]()
The Military Form by Christopher Rowley
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEons ago, a war was fought to the death between the parasitic and ferocious Vang and a gifted but doomed race. As a last resort, these gentle beings were forced to use the Starhammer to smash the Vang spacefleets and homeworld, leaving only a handful of survivors. For a billion years a silvery shape drifted through space... -
![Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud]()
Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCrypt of the Moon Spider is a dark and dreamy tale of horror, corruption, and identity spun into the stickiest of webs.Years ago, in a cave beneath the dense forests and streams on the surface of the moon, a gargantuan spider once lived. Its silk granted its first worshippers immense faculties of power and awe... -
-
![Forgotten by M.R. Forbes]()
Forgotten by M.R. Forbes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSome things are better off FORGOTTEN. Sheriff Hayden Duke was born on the Pilgrim, and he expects to die on the Pilgrim, like his father, and his father before him. That's the way things are on a generation starship centuries from home. He's never questioned it. Never thought about it... -
![Pitch Dark by Courtney Alameda]()
Pitch Dark by Courtney Alameda
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLost to time, Tuck Morgan and his crew have slept in stasis aboard the USS John Muir for centuries. Their ship harbors a chunk of Earth, which unbeknownst to them, is the last hope for the failing human race.Laura Cruz is a shipraider searching the galaxy for the history that was scattered to the stars... -
![Risen by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan]()
Risen by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhat has been awakened is unbound. The Boy is getting his first taste of freedom. As their comrades fall, fear threatens to consume the survivors in part four of The Boy in the Iron Box.Liev’s get his men out of this ancient stone prison, take their chances with the wolves, and descend the summit at first light. But in this snowbound hell, there’s soon to be a frightening new twist to survival... -
![Revenant-X by David Wellington]()
Revenant-X by David Wellington
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRevenant-X is the terrifying second novel in a new trilogy of survival and exploration in deep space, from Clarke Award-nominated author David Wellington.FEAR THE DARK.The crew of the Artemis - led by Firewatch agent Alexandra Petrova - have survived the furious onslaught of the Basilisk and broken through the space blockade around Paradise-1... -
![The Fallen by Ada Hoffmann]()
The Fallen by Ada Hoffmann
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe laws of physics acting on the planet of Jai have been forever upended; its surface completed altered, and its inhabitants permanently changed. The artificially intelligent Gods that ruled the galaxy, fearing heresy and chaos, have become the planet’s jailers. Tiv Hunt once trusted these Gods absolutely, but now her world has changed and her allegiance has shifted... -
![The Hematophages by Stephen Kozeniewski]()
The Hematophages by Stephen Kozeniewski
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDoctoral student Paige Ambroziak is a “station bunny” – she’s never set foot off the deep space outpost where she grew up. But when she’s offered a small fortune to join a clandestine salvage mission, she jumps at the chance to leave the cutthroat world of academia behind... -
![Contagion by Erin Bowman]()
Contagion by Erin Bowman
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIt got in usAfter receiving an urgent SOS from a work detail on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is dispatched to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission.Most are dead.But when the crew arrives, they find an abandoned site, littered with rotten food, discarded weapons...and dead bodies.Don't set foot here again... -
![Sanctuary by Caryn Lix]()
Sanctuary by Caryn Lix
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKenzie holds one truth above all: the company is everything.As a citizen of Omnistellar Concepts, the most powerful corporation in the solar system, Kenzie has trained her entire life for one goal: to become an elite guard on Sanctuary, Omnistellar’s space prison for superpowered teens too dangerous for Earth...Categorized as:
action-adventure aliens audiobook book dystopia enemies-to-lovers family female-author -
![Aliens vs. Predators: Ultimate Prey by Jonathan Maberry, Hillary Huber]()
Aliens vs. Predators: Ultimate Prey by Jonathan Maberry, Hillary Huber
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first anthology of original short stories featuring the confluence of two iconic properties, as the Predators seek the ultimate prey: the Xenomorphs from AlienThe ultimate hunters, the Predators, are pitted against their ultimate prey, the Xenomorphs, with humans caught in the middle! Taking place on Earth and in distant space, these tales have been crafted by a who's who of today's most... -
![Wild Blood by Naomi Lucas]()
Wild Blood by Naomi Lucas
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsDommik was a monster, a Monster Hunter, and an alpha. Part of an elite group that dealt with the horrors of the universe. At least that was what everyone at the spaceport was whispering as he walked by. A Cyborg, a hunter, a beast with eyes as dark as the pits of Hell and the stride of a predator. Katalina was a nobody who was intimate with death... -
-
![Eden by Phil Rossi]()
Eden by Phil Rossi
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Science can't explain what is sometimes called 'magic.' Magic can't explain the wonder of EDEN."- Scott Sigler, New York Times best-selling author of Contagious The tree is beautiful and they call her Eden. Her branches reach for the stars. She is like all other trees on planet Earth save for her enormous size. Still, she has leaves and she has bark. She turns sunlight into life... -
![A Conspiracy of Stars by Olivia A. Cole]()
A Conspiracy of Stars by Olivia A. Cole
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOctavia has only ever had one goal: to follow in the footsteps of her parents and become a prestigious whitecoat, one of the scientists who study the natural wonders of Faloiv. The secrets of the jungle’s exotic plants and animals are protected fiercely in the labs by the Council of N’Terra, so when the rules suddenly change, allowing students inside, Octavia should be overjoyed... -
![Dead Space: Martyr by B.K. Evenson, Brian Evenson]()
Dead Space: Martyr by B.K. Evenson, Brian Evenson
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe first novel in the multi-million dollar video game franchise Dead SpaceWhen geophysicist Michael Altman hears of the mysterious signal emitted from deep within the Chicxulub crater, he can not resist the lure of an undiscovered artifact. With his girlfriend Ada, he joins a team excavating the underwater crater, determined to find the source of the baffling message... -
![Alien: Echo by Mira Grant]()
Alien: Echo by Mira Grant
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn original young adult novel of the Alien universeOlivia and her twin sister Viola have been dragged around the universe for as long as they can remember. Their parents, both xenobiologists, are always in high demand for their research into obscure alien biology.Just settled on a new colony world, they discover an alien threat unlike anything they’ve ever seen... -
![Crescent by Phil Rossi]()
Crescent by Phil Rossi
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDarkness has inspired fear since mankind first watched the sun go down. Bad things hide in the dark feral beasts with mouths full of razors waiting for a taste of flesh. But now, the darkness is stirring with a life of its own. Crescent Station is the last bastion of civilization, floating in the cold, outer systems where colonized space gives way to the sparser settlements of the Frontier... -
![Hell on Mars by J.Z. Foster, Justin M. Woodward]()
Hell on Mars by J.Z. Foster, Justin M. Woodward
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Sci-fi Space HorrorSomething went wrong in the Mars Felicity Station. A gate to another reality was opened, and a mysterious alien plague threatens humanity.After communications with the station are cut, the crew of the Perihelion is sent to find out what happened. Outmatched and unprepared, they’re forced to make war on this new enemy and rescue what remains of the survivors... -
![Pacific Rim: The Official Movie Novelization by Alexander C. Irvine]()
Pacific Rim: The Official Movie Novelization by Alexander C. Irvine
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThe official novelization of the upcoming sci-fi blockbuster Pacific Rim from visionary director Guillermo del Toro!When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end... -
![Hell Divers by Nicholas Sansbury Smith]()
Hell Divers by Nicholas Sansbury Smith
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThey dive so humanity survives … More than two centuries after World War III poisoned the planet, the final bastion of humanity lives on massive airships circling the globe in search of a habitable area to call home. Aging and outdated, most of the ships plummeted back to earth long ago... -
![Alien: River of Pain by Christopher Golden]()
Alien: River of Pain by Christopher Golden
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsWhen Ellen Ripley finally returns to Earth, she learns that the planet LV-426—now called Acheron—has been colonized. But LV-426 is where Ripley and the crew of the Nostromo found the original Xenomorph—the killing machine known as the Alien.Protected by the Colonial Marines, the colonists seek to terraform the storm-swept planet... -
![Alien: Prototype by Tim Waggoner]()
Alien: Prototype by Tim Waggoner
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsDead cargo!Venture, a direct rival to the Weyland-Yutani corporation, will accept any risk to crush the competition. Thus, when a corporate spy "acquires" a bizarre, leathery egg from a hijacked vessel, she takes it directly to the Venture testing facility on Jericho 3.Though unaware of the danger it poses, the scientists there recognize their prize's immeasurable value... -
-
![Alien: Sea of Sorrows by James A. Moore]()
Alien: Sea of Sorrows by James A. Moore
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsAs a deputy commissioner for the ICC, Alan Decker’s job is to make sure the settlements on LV178 follow all the rules, keeping the colonists safe. But the planet known as New Galveston holds secrets, lurking deep beneath the toxic sands dubbed the Sea of Sorrows... -
![Alien: Out of the Shadows by Tim Lebbon]()
Alien: Out of the Shadows by Tim Lebbon
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsAs a child, Chris Hooper dreamed of monsters. But in deep space, he found only darkness and isolation. Then on planet LV178, he and his fellow miners discovered a storm-scoured, sand-blasted hell - and trimonite, the hardest material known to man.When a shuttle crashed into the mining ship Marion, the miners learn that there was more than trimonite deep in the caverns... -
![Dead Space: Catalyst by B.K. Evenson, Brian Evenson]()
Dead Space: Catalyst by B.K. Evenson, Brian Evenson
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsTwo hundred and fifty years in the future, extinction threatens mankind. Tampering with dangerous technology from the Black Marker—an ancient alien artifact discovered on Earth eighty years earlier— Earthgov hopes to save humanity. But the Marker's influence reanimates corpses into grotesque rampaging nightmares... -
![2389 by Iain Rob Wright]()
2389 by Iain Rob Wright
Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsGrand Galaxies is the most expensive amusement park ever created, built on the surface of the moon. For a decade now, rich families and honeymooning couples have gone there to have the time of their lives, and no one has ever returned disappointed. But communication with the moon has been lost. Someone needs to go up there and see what’s wrong... -
![Thirst by Addison Cain]()
Thirst by Addison Cain
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHuman, fragile, available... ...should I pay the exorbitant price the insectoid flesh dealer demands. Pretty even in her strangeness. The alien creature is everything I require to satiate my seeding frenzy. Her protected species engineered to survive my needs. Built to serve them again and again. One look at her trapped in containment, and already my tentacles display... -
![Aliens: Bug Hunt by Jonathan Maberry, Heather Graham]()
Aliens: Bug Hunt by Jonathan Maberry, Heather Graham
Rated: 3.54 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWhen the Colonial Marines set out after their deadliest prey, the Xenomorphs, it’s what Corporal Hicks calls a bug hunt—kill or be killed. Here are fifteen all-new stories of such “close encounters,” written by many of today’s most extraordinary authors...
Or - use our amazing romance book finder to get recommendations based on your favorite content tropes and themes. Mix and match at will.
