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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...
  • Tiamat's Wrath by James S.A. Corey

    Tiamat's Wrath by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 48 ratings
    Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper...
  • 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...
  • Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey

    Caliban's War by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    We are not alone.On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a high-level politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threatening to spread out into the solar system...
  • Persepolis Rising by James S.A. Corey

    Persepolis Rising by James S.A. Corey

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    In the thousand-sun network of humanity's expansion, new colony worlds are struggling to find their way. Every new planet lives on a knife edge between collapse and wonder, and the crew of the aging gunship Rocinante have their hands more than full keeping the fragile peace...
  • 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...
  • Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

    Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 68 ratings
    So far the Foundation was safe. But there was a hidden Second Foundation to protect the first. The Mule has yet to find it, but he was getting closer all the time. The men of the Foundation sought it, too, to escape from Mule's mind control. Only Arkady, a 14 year-old girl seemed to have the answer, or did she..
  • 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...
  • I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

    I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 76 ratings
    They mustn't harm a human being, they must obey human orders, and they must protect their own existence...but only so long as that doesn't violate rules one and two. With these Three Laws of Robotics, humanity embarked on a bold new era of evolution that would open up enormous possibilities - and unforeseen risks...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Hyperion by Dan Simmons

    Hyperion by Dan Simmons

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 73 ratings
    On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all...
  • 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...
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

    2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 74 ratings
    On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered.So great are the implications of this discovery that for the first time men are sent out deep into our solar system.But long before their destination is reached, things begin to go horribly, inexplicably wrong...One of the greatest-selling science fiction novels of our time, this classic book will grip you to the very end...
  • Contact by Carl Sagan

    Contact by Carl Sagan

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    THE FUTURE IS HERE...IN AN ADVENTURE OF COSMIC DIMENSION. In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who -- or what -- is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In CONTACT, he predicts its future -- and our own...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Brass Man by Neal Asher

    Brass Man by Neal Asher

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Ian Cormac, a legendary Earth Central Security agent, the James Bond of a wealthy future, is hunting an interstellar dragon, little knowing that, far away, his competition has resurrected an horrific killing machine named "Mr. Crane" to assist in a similar hunt, ecompassing whole star systems. Mr...
  • 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...
  • Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

    Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    An all-time science fiction classic, Rendezvous with Rama is also one of Clarke's best novels--it won the Campbell, Hugo, Jupiter, and Nebula Awards. A huge, mysterious, cylindrical object appears in space, swooping in toward the sun. The citizens of the solar system send a ship to investigate before the enigmatic craft, called Rama, disappears...
  • Effacement by Hieronymus Hawkes

    Effacement by Hieronymus Hawkes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When recording every aspect of your life has become the law, what happens when your connection to the world is severed? With the advent of BioNarratus’s Vitasync neurochip, serious crime has all but disappeared. Without a lifelog you can’t get a bank account, medical insurance, or a job...
  • 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. . .
  • 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...
  • The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi

    The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    The first novel of a new space-opera sequence set in an all-new universe by the Hugo Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Redshirts and Old Man's War...
  • Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

    Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    Seeking atonement for past crimes, Breq takes on a mission as captain of a troublesome new crew of Radchai soldiers, in the sequel to Ann Leckie's NYT bestselling, award-winning Ancillary Justice. A must read for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin and James S. A. Corey.Breq is a soldier who used to be a warship...
  • 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...
  • Kill Process by William Hertling

    Kill Process by William Hertling

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    By day, Angie, a twenty-year veteran of the tech industry, is a data analyst at Tomo, the world's largest social networking company; by night, she exploits her database access to profile domestic abusers and kill the worst of them. She can't change her own traumatic past, but she can save other women...
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    crime  suspense  adult  ai  audiobook  book  contemporary  cyberpunk
  • 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...
  • Solaris by Stanisław Lem

    Solaris by Stanisław Lem

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    A classic work of science fiction by renowned Polish novelist and satirist Stanislaw Lem.When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the living physical likeness of a long-dead lover...
  • 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...
  • Le Problème à trois corps by Liu Cixin, Gwennaël Gaffric

    Le Problème à trois corps by Liu Cixin, Gwennaël Gaffric

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 44 ratings
    Premier volume d'une trilogie culte, récompensé par le Hugo du meilleur roman en 2015, Le Problème à trois corps signale l’arrivée d’un auteur majeur sur la scène de la hard SF...
  • Picks and Shovels by Cory Doctorow

    Picks and Shovels by Cory Doctorow

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new tool for crime ever the personal computer.The year is 1986. The city is San Francisco...
  • Watching Trees Grow by Peter F. Hamilton

    Watching Trees Grow by Peter F. Hamilton

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Peter Hamilton brings his trademark flair for narrative sweep and epic ideas to a short novel that tells the story of an near- immortal mankind that grew from the Roman Empire. Paired with WATCHING TREES GROW is TENDELEO'S STORY the Theodore Sturgeon award-winning new Chaga short novel from the acclaimed Ian McDonald...
  • Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan

    Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 70 ratings
    Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course.But some things never change...
  • Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel

    Waking Gods by Sylvain Neuvel

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    As a child, Rose Franklin made an astonishing discovery: a giant metallic hand, buried deep within the earth. As an adult, she’s dedicated her brilliant scientific career to solving the mystery that began that fateful day: Why was a titanic robot of unknown origin buried in pieces around the world? Years of investigation have produced intriguing answers—and even more perplexing questions...
  • Zero History by William Gibson

    Zero History by William Gibson

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Hollis Henry never intended to work for global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend again. But now she’s broke, and Bigend has just the thing to get her back in the game... Milgrim can disappear in almost any setting, and his Russian is perfectly idiomatic—so much so that he spoke it with his therapist in the secret Swiss clinic where Bigend paid for him to be cured of his addiction..
  • Reamde by Neal Stephenson

    Reamde by Neal Stephenson

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Four decades ago, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family, fled to a wild and lonely mountainous corner of British Columbia to avoid the draft. Smuggling backpack loads of high-grade marijuana across the border into Northern Idaho, he quickly amassed an enormous and illegal fortune...
  • The Nano Flower by Peter F. Hamilton

    The Nano Flower by Peter F. Hamilton

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Peter F. Hamilton is one the rising stars of science fiction in the nineties...
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    crime  epic  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  cyberpunk  fiction
  • Darknet by Matthew Mather

    Darknet by Matthew Mather

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    A terrifying new breed of predator evolves...A dark secret determined to stay hidden...A prophetic and frighteningly realistic novel set in present-day New York, Darknet is the story of one man's odyssey to overcome a global menace pushing the world toward oblivion, and his incredible gamble to risk everything to save his family...
  • Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

    Pattern Recognition by William Gibson

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing on the Internet. An entire subculture of people is obsessed with these bits of footage, and anybody who can create that kind of brand loyalty would be a gold mine for Cayce's client...
  • Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

    Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 70 ratings
    On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.Once, she was the Justice of Toren - a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy...
  • Freezing Point by Grace Hamilton

    Freezing Point by Grace Hamilton

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the dawn of a new Ice Age, families everywhere are taking to the road to escape the frigid landscape—but you can’t outrun the cold. No one could have predicted the terrifying impact of human interference in the Arctic. Shifts in the Earth's crust have led to catastrophe and now the North Pole is located in the mid-Atlantic, making much of the eastern United States an unlivable polar hellscape...
  • Split Second by Douglas E. Richards

    Split Second by Douglas E. Richards

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    A stunningly unique time travel thriller. The 27th bestselling Kindle book of 2017--out of almost 6 million titles. What if you found a way to send something back in time? But not weeks, days, or even minutes back. What if you could only send something back a fraction of a second? Would this be of any use? You wouldn't have nearly enough time to right a wrong, change an event, or win a lottery...
  • Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds

    Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity...
  • Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

    Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Whalefall is a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out.Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool’s errand—to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach...
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