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  • Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

    Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 80 ratings
    A lone astronaut.An impossible mission.An ally he never imagined.Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and Earth itself will perish.Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time...
  • Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey

    Nemesis Games by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 61 ratings
    The fifth novel in Corey's New York Times bestselling Expanse series--now being produced for television by the SyFy Channel!A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush in human history has begun. As wave after wave of colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle.Ships are disappearing without a trace. Private armies are being secretly formed...
  • The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin, Eisso Post

    The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin, Eisso Post

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    This is the second novel in "Remembrance of Earth’s Past", the near-future trilogy written by the China's multiple-award-winning science fiction author, Cixin Liu. In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion — four centuries in the future...
  • Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

    Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    Murderbot wasn’t programmed to care. So, its decision to help the only human who ever showed it respect must be a system glitch, right?Having traveled the width of the galaxy to unearth details of its own murderous transgressions, as well as those of the GrayCris Corporation, Murderbot is heading home to help Dr...
  • Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

    Artificial Condition by Martha Wells

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 65 ratings
    It has a dark past – one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot”. But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more.Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A” stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue...
  • Dust by Hugh Howey

    Dust by Hugh Howey

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Wool  introduced the world of the silo.  Shift  told the story of its creation.  Dust  will describe its downfall. The residents of Silo 18 have a new mayor and the chance of a new beginning. But just as they regain their footing, their gravest threat emerges: Silo 1, and the men who brought Earth into ruin. But power, politics, and the survival of the human race are complex...
  • Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

    Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    No, I didn’t kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn’t dump the body in the station mall...
  • Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

    Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 79 ratings
    Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars are still out of our reach.Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted...
  • Abaddon's Gate by James S.A. Corey

    Abaddon's Gate by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    Abaddon's Gate is the third book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series. For generations, the solar system - Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt - was humanity's great frontier. Until now. The alien artefact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark...
  • Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton

    Judas Unchained by Peter F. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    Robust, peaceful, and confident, the Commonwealth dispatched a ship to investigate the mystery of a disappearing star, only to inadvertently unleash a predatory alien species that turned on its liberators, striking hard, fast, and utterly without mercy. The Prime are the Commonwealth's worst nightmare...
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  • Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

    Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 59 ratings
    SciFi’s favorite crabby A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is.And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good...
  • Babylon's Ashes by James S.A. Corey

    Babylon's Ashes by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    The sixth book in the New York Times bestselling Expanse series. NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES A revolution brewing for generations has begun in fire. It will end in blood.The Free Navy - a violent group of Belters in black-market military ships - has crippled the Earth and begun a campaign of piracy and violence among the outer planets...
  • The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal

    The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Mary Robinette Kowal continues her award-winning Lady Astronaut series, which began with The Calculating Stars and The Fated Sky, with The Relentless Moon.The Earth is coming to the boiling point as the climate disaster of the Meteor strike becomes more and more clear, but the political situation is already overheated. Riots and sabotage plague the space program...
  • Freedom™ by Daniel Suarez

    Freedom™ by Daniel Suarez

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    The propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to New York Times bestseller Daemon, the "Greatest. Techno-thriller. Period."**William O'Brien, former director of cybersecurity and communications systems policy at the White House2009 saw one of the most inventive techno-thriller debuts in decades as Daniel Suarez introduced his terrifying and tantalizing vision of a new world order...
  • Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov

    Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they return to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire on the ruins of the old. But rumors persist that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all—and that its still-defiant survivors are preparing their revenge...
  • Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton

    Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 46 ratings
    The year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars some four hundred light-years in diameter, contains more than six hundred worlds, interconnected by a web of transport "tunnels" known as wormholes. At the farthest edge of the Commonwealth, astronomer Dudley Bose observes the impossible: Over one thousand light-years away, a star... vanishes. It does not go supernova...
  • Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey

    Cibola Burn by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 72 ratings
    The fourth novel in James S.A. Corey’s New York Times bestselling Expanse seriesThe gates have opened the way to thousands of habitable planets, and the land rush has begun. Settlers stream out from humanity's home planets in a vast, poorly controlled flood, landing on a new world...
  • Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov

    Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    This daring story of humanity’s future introduces one of the great masterworks of science fiction: the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov. Unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, bold ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of people to save civilization from a relentless tide of darkness and violence—beginning with one exceptional man...
  • Anathem by Neal Stephenson

    Anathem by Neal Stephenson

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside "saecular" world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent's walls...
  • Robots and Empire by Isaac Asimov

    Robots and Empire by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Long after his humiliating defeat at the hands of Earthman Elijah Baley, Keldon Amadiro embarked on a plan to destroy planet Earth. But even after his death, Baley's vision continued to guide his robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, who had the wisdom of a great man behind him and an indestructable will to win...
  • The Solar War by A.G. Riddle

    The Solar War by A.G. Riddle

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    We thought the war was over.We were wrong.They decimated Earth during the Long Winter.Now the grid has returned, and they won't stop until the human race is extinct.On a ruined world, humanity's last survivors fight against impossible odds. In their darkest hour, they discover a new hope for survival. But it comes at an unthinkable price, with consequences that will change everything...
  • The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov

    The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together...
  • The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons

    The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    On the world called Hyperion the mysterious Time Tombs are opening and seven pilgrims risk their lives to petition the entity called the Shrike - a creature that may well control the fate of all mankind...
  • Auberon by James S.A. Corey

    Auberon by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    A novella set in the universe of James S. A. Corey’s NYT-bestselling Expanse series, Auberon explores a new and alien world and the age-old dangers that humanity has carried with it to the stars. Now a Prime Original series.Auberon is one of the first and most important colony worlds in humanity’s reach, and the new conquering faction has come to claim it...
  • Daemon by Daniel Suarez

    Daemon by Daniel Suarez

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    A high-tech thriller for the wireless age that explores the unthinkable consequences of a computer program running without human control—a daemon—designed to dismantle society and bring about a new world orderTechnology controls almost everything in our modern-day world, from remote entry on our cars to access to our homes, from the flight controls of our airplanes to the movements of the entire...
  • Virus Hunters 1 by Bobby Akart

    Virus Hunters 1 by Bobby Akart

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The world is grappling with an issue of enormous scale and human impact.In the arms race with deadly pathogens, there can be no final peace.The only question is whether we fight well or poorly.Defeat means massive disruptions to our daily lives, huge losses economically, and death...
  • The Lost Colony by A.G. Riddle

    The Lost Colony by A.G. Riddle

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Can humanity survive on a new world?On Eos, the last survivors of the Long Winter face their greatest challenge yet--and race to unravel the deepest secrets of the grid. It's a journey across space and time and into humanity's past and future--with a twist you'll never forget...
  • The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds

    The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a policeman of sorts, and one of the best. His force is Panoply, and his beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone. These days, his job is his life...
  • Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov

    Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    FOUNDATIONS'S END?Centuries after the fall of the First Galactic Empire, Mankind's destiny lay in the hands of Golan Trevize, former Councilman of the First Foundation. Reluctantly he chose the mental unity of Galaxia as the only alternative to a future of unending chaos.But Mankind as massmind was not an idea Trevize was comfortable with...
  • Apex by Ramez Naam

    Apex by Ramez Naam

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Global unrest spreads as mass protests advance throughout the US and China, Nexus-upgraded riot police battle against upgraded protestors, and a once-dead scientist plans to take over the planet's electronic systems. The world has never experienced turmoil of this type, on this scale.They call them the Apex - humanity's replacement. They're smarter, faster, better. And infinitely more dangerous...
  • The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons

    The Rise of Endymion by Dan Simmons

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, one-time shepherd and convicted murderer, must help her deliver her startling message to her growing army of disciples...
  • Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds

    Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The once-utopian Chasm City -a doomed human settlement on an otherwise inhospitable planet- has been overrun by a virus known as the Melding Plague, capable of infecting any body, organic or computerized. Now, with the entire city corrupted -from the people to the very buildings they inhabit- only the most wretched sort of existence remains...
  • Winter World by A.G. Riddle

    Winter World by A.G. Riddle

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    A new ice age... and a shocking discovery...will change humanity forever.In the near future, a new ice age has begun.Humanity stands on the brink of extinction.Desperate for answers, scientists send probes into the solar system to take readings. Near Mars, a probe spots a mysterious object drifting toward the Sun...
  • The Aleph Extraction by Dan Moren

    The Aleph Extraction by Dan Moren

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Aboard a notorious gangster's luxurious starliner, Simon Kovalic and his crew race to steal a mysterious artifact that could shift the balance of the war...
  • CyberSpace by Matthew Mather

    CyberSpace by Matthew Mather

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In this long-awaited sequel to the massive bestseller CyberStorm, Mike and his family are caught up in a new disaster as the Kessler Syndrome unfolds and all satellites in orbit are suddenly destroyed."Couldn't put it down...CyberStorm series is not only a great thriller, but a wake up call...
  • Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

    Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 85 ratings
    An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them—for a price. Until something goes wrong. . .
  • Station Breaker by Andrew Mayne

    Station Breaker by Andrew Mayne

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A cutting edge technothriller from the bestselling author of Angel Killer and Public Enemy Zero. Astronaut David Dixon's first mission to space goes horribly wrong when shots are fired on a Russian space station. He finds himself making an emergency landing from orbit and becomes the most wanted man on Earth...
  • Genome by A.G. Riddle

    Genome by A.G. Riddle

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    A code hidden in the human genome will reveal the ultimate secret of human existence.And could hold humanity's only hope of survival.Genome concludes The Extinction Files, the two-book series that began with Pandemic. It's a race against time—and an exploration into the deepest mysteries of human existence (with a twist at the end you'll never see coming)...
  • All Systems Red by Martha Wells

    All Systems Red by Martha Wells

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 84 ratings
    "As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety.But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern...
  • Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton

    Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Humanity's complex relationship with technology spirals out of control in this first book of an all-new trilogy from "the owner of the most powerful imagination in science fiction" (Ken Follett).In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. A new technology of linked jump gates has rendered most forms of transporation--including starships--virtually obsolete...
  • The Churn by James S.A. Corey

    The Churn by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author James S.A. Corey...Before his trip to the stars, before the Rocinante, Amos Burton's was confined to a Baltimore where crime paid you or killed you. Unless the authorities got to you first.Set in the hard-scrabble solar system of Leviathan Wakes, Caliban's War, Abaddon's Gate and the upcoming Cibola Burn, Beloved of Broken Things deepens James S. A...
  • The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, Ken Liu

    The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin, Ken Liu

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens...
  • Jupiter War by Neal Asher

    Jupiter War by Neal Asher

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The third book of the Owner trilogy delivers an explosive conclusion to Neal Asher’s action-packed series chronicling the struggles for political dominance in a resource-scarce future. Power vacuums and new despots spring up across the solar system, in the wake of the events of The Departure and Zero Point...
  • Thin Air by Richard K. Morgan

    Thin Air by Richard K. Morgan

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Richard Morgan has always been one of our most successful SF authors with his fast-moving and brutal storylines, blistering plots and a powerful social conscience behind his work.And now he's back, with his first SF novel for eight years . . . and it promises to be a publication to remember...
  • Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge

    Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Multiple Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge takes readers on a fifty-million-year trip to a future where humanity's fate will be decided in a dangerous game of high-tech survival.In this taut thriller, a Hugo finalist for Best Novel, nobody knows why there are only three hundred humans left alive on the Earth fifty million years from now...
  • Pandemic by A.G. Riddle

    Pandemic by A.G. Riddle

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Around the world, a deadly outbreak spreads.The CDC and WHO race to stop it, but they soon learn that this pandemic hides a dark secret. It may be the start of a scientific experiment that could alter the human race forever--and reveal a shocking truth about our future.Experience the groundbreaking novel that will change everything you think you know about pandemics--and how to survive one...
  • Biochips by William Gibson

    Biochips by William Gibson

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    Turner, corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D is defecting. Turner is the one assigned to get him out intact, along with the biochip he's perfected...
  • Bunker: Code of Honor by Jay J. Falconer

    Bunker: Code of Honor by Jay J. Falconer

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When the perpetrators finally reveal themselves, Jack Bunker finds himself the target of a deadly manhunt. They need him eliminated at all costs and are willing to unleash hell across the countryside to achieve their sinister plan. But the trouble doesn’t end there...
  • The Robots of Gotham by Todd McAulty

    The Robots of Gotham by Todd McAulty

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    After long years of war, the United States has sued for peace, yielding to a brutal coalition of nations ruled by fascist machines. One quarter of the country is under foreign occupation. Manhattan has been annexed by a weird robot monarchy, and in Tennessee, a permanent peace is being delicately negotiated between the battered remnants of the U.S. government and an envoy of implacable machines...
  • Nexus by Ramez Naam

    Nexus by Ramez Naam

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Mankind gets an upgradeIn the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can link humans together, mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it...
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