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958 past books matching Sci-Fi
Seekers in the Void begins with a first command that carries more risk than prestige in a corporate empire that controls interstellar travel.
Seekers in the Void
Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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Seekers in the Void begins with a first command that carries more risk than prestige in a corporate empire that controls interstellar travel. Captain Cirilo Webster takes charge of a freighter serving a powerful megacorporation, only to face a distrustful crew, a questionable mission, and rising tensions with rival interests. This space opera blends political maneuvering, corporate intrigue, and evolving artificial intelligence against a vast colonial backdrop.
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Captain Cirilo Webster is a loyal officer of the Santiago Corporation, the multistellar megacorporation that controls all travel between the Seventy-Seven human colonies.
Finally given command of his first interstellar freighter, he is determined to do well by both his crew and his employers—but nothing is ever that simple.
His crew is used to Captains passing through on their way to better ships. The Company’s policies have made more enemies than he can count. Their mission is unusual and the client might be lying to him.
And if all of that wasn’t enough? One of the cyborgs his ship uses for security is starting to do things like read encyclopedias for fun.
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As the city fractures, a twelve-year-old begins to see the world without illusions.
Random Acts of Senseless Violence
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Cyberpunk · Cyberpunk Dystopia
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As the city fractures, a twelve-year-old begins to see the world without illusions. In Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Lola Hart records her family’s descent from comfort to survival as riots, disease, and unrest unravel New York around them. Told through her diary, this dystopian novel captures the quiet erosion of innocence against a backdrop of social collapse.
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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year: In a dystopian future New York, a girl's diary chronicles her life as society begins to crumble around her.
Until recently, Lola Hart's biggest problem was her annoying little sister. Now the twelve-year-old girl's once comfortable life is slowly falling apart. Her mother is a teacher, but she's lost her job. Her father is a writer, but no one is buying his scripts. It's gotten so bad that they can no longer afford their Manhattan apartment or the tuition for Lola's exclusive private school.
They move to a small apartment near Harlem, and Lola enrolls in public school—but the Harts aren't alone in their troubles. Riots, fires, TB outbreaks, roaming gangs, and civil unrest have become commonplace, threatening the very fabric of life in New York. In the pages of her diary, Lola documents her family's attempts to adjust as the city and the country spin out of control
Jack Womack, a winner of the Philip K. Dick Award, has been compared to both William Gibson and Kurt Vonnegut for his vivid prose and unbridled imagination. In this novel, "Womack's stark vision of the United States's decline is an uncompromising satire that, perhaps even more than it did in the mid-1990s, forces us to confront a world instantly recognizable as our own" (Los Angeles Review of Books).
"A heartrending coming-of-age story. Flecked with black humor, this is speculative fiction at its eerie best." —Entertainment Weekly
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A restless drifter becomes the unlikely target of forces far beyond Earth.
Starhunter
Sci-Fi · Military Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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A restless drifter becomes the unlikely target of forces far beyond Earth. In Starhunter, Kane Hunter discovers an alien scout ship attuned to his DNA and learns that an artificial intelligence has infiltrated the planet, preparing for invasion. Thrust into interstellar conflict with a crew of outsiders, he must embrace a destiny he never wanted in this action-driven military science fiction adventure.
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My name is Kane Hunter, and I never asked to become humanity's last line of defense.
It started with a strange feeling along Nevada's Extraterrestrial Highway—someone watching me. Within hours, my Harley was stolen, I was tossed into a ghost town's jail by a sheriff who wasn't quite human, and an old Paiute chief was whispering about ancient visitors from the stars.
Then I found the Theron—a dormant alien scout ship buried in the desert, waiting for someone with the right genetic markers. Someone like me.
Now I know the truth: an artificial intelligence called the Mindship has infiltrated Earth, using Area 51 as its foothold before a full-scale invasion from Tau Ceti. With a crew of unlikely aliens and androids, I’ll take the fight beyond the solar system’s edge—into enemy territory.
I'm no soldier, just a drifter with an unexpected legacy. But when humanity's survival is on the line, running isn't an option.
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A missing cat case opens the door to a conspiracy that bends time itself.
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
Sci-Fi · Speculative Fiction · Time Travel
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A missing cat case opens the door to a conspiracy that bends time itself. In Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, an unconventional private investigator follows the principle that everything connects, uncovering a ghost with a plan to rewrite its own fate. This science fiction mystery blends time travel, metaphysical puzzles, and high-stakes consequences into a story where coincidence hides a larger design.
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From Douglas Adams, the legendary author of one of the most beloved science fiction classics of all time, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, comes a wildly inventive novel of ghosts, time travel, and one detective’s mission to save humanity from extinction.
DIRK GENTLY’S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY
We solve the whole crime.
We find the whole person.
Phone today for the whole solution to your problem.
(Missing cats and messy divorces a specialty)
In this novel from the legendary Douglas Adams, quirky and bumbling Private Investigator Dirk Gently stumbles upon a million-year-old ghost, wandering the earth and disturbing all its people. What he uncovers is the ghost’s desperate plot to go back in time to prevent its own death. But this ghost was no ordinary person, and helping it save itself just might change the modern world as we know it. And not in a good way.
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Islands in the Net begins in a world where corporations eclipse nations and information serves as the ultimate currency.
Islands in the Net
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Thriller · Cyberpunk · Political Dystopia · Political Thriller · Suspense
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Islands in the Net begins in a world where corporations eclipse nations and information serves as the ultimate currency. When a corporate conference turns deadly, rising public relations executive Laura Webster becomes entangled in a widening conflict of data piracy, electronic warfare, and geopolitical unrest. This cyberpunk thriller examines power, technology, and global instability through a sharp, near-future lens.
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Terror in the Trees opens with a warning dismissed as a prank, then follows a family into the wilderness where something watches from the shadows.
Terror in the Trees
Horror · Mystery · Sci-Fi
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Terror in the Trees opens with a warning dismissed as a prank, then follows a family into the wilderness where something watches from the shadows. What begins as an ordinary camping trip unravels into a mounting threat that reaches beyond the forest and into a nearby college town. This suspense-driven horror novel builds tension through isolation, rumor, and the fear of the unknown.
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“College students claim they were chased by a giant animal up Cherryton Canyon, near Chapel Fork. Campers warned to watch for anything unusual.” This is the headline a young boy named Steve sees when they stop at a gas station. His mom tells him there is nothing to worry about. It was probably college kids pulling pranks on each other. Once at the campsite unusual things begin to happen. Unbeknownst to them they are being dragged into a frightening drama that will rock the nearby college town and rural community for years.
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A scientific breakthrough meant to expand humanity’s horizons instead opens the door to extinction.
Coldbrook
Dystopian · Horror · Sci-Fi
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A scientific breakthrough meant to expand humanity’s horizons instead opens the door to extinction. When a secret Appalachian lab creates a gateway to another world, a virulent disease escapes and tears through the global population. Coldbrook fuses science fiction with apocalyptic horror, following the desperate search for a single immune survivor who may hold the key to reversing the collapse.
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An Appalachian laboratory unleashes a deadly disease in this zombie apocalypse novel blending horror and sci-fi into one “incredibly cool” parallel-universe thrill ride. (Barnes & Noble).
Coldbrook is a secret laboratory located deep in Appalachian Mountains. Its scientists had achieved the impossible: a gateway to a new world. Theirs was to be the greatest discovery in the history of mankind, but they had no idea what they were about to unleash.
With their breakthrough comes disease and now it is out and ravaging the human population. The only hope is a cure and the only cure is genetic resistance: an uninfected person amongst the billions dead.
In the chaos of destruction there is only one person that can save the human race.
But will they find her in time?
With echoes of The Walking Dead, Stargate, and Robert McCammon’s Swan Song, Coldbrook in a high-voltage zombie apocalypse novel perfect for fans of horror and science fiction!
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Wild Seed unfolds as a centuries-long confrontation between two immortals bound by power, desire, and control.
Wild Seed
Sci-Fi · Genetic Engineering · People of Color · Speculative Fiction
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Wild Seed unfolds as a centuries-long confrontation between two immortals bound by power, desire, and control. Doro shapes humanity through ruthless breeding and domination, while Anyanwu builds communities through healing and care. When their paths collide, attraction becomes coercion and survival becomes negotiation. This novel explores immortality, consent, and legacy through an intimate struggle that reshapes generations.
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From the acclaimed author of the Earthseed series, two immortals chase each other across continents and centuries, binding their fates together and changing the destiny of the human race.
Doro knows no higher authority than himself. An ancient spirit with boundless powers, he possesses humans, killing without remorse as he jumps from body to body to sustain his own life. With a lonely eternity ahead of him, Doro breeds supernaturally gifted humans into empires that obey his every desire. He fears no one—until he meets Anyanwu.
Anyanwu is an entity like Doro and yet different. She can heal with a bite and transform her own body, mending injuries and reversing aging. She uses her powers to cure her neighbors and birth entire tribes, surrounding herself with kindred who both fear and respect her. No one poses a true threat to Anyanwu—until she meets Doro.
The moment Doro meets Anyanwu, he covets her; and from the villages of 17th-century Nigeria to 19th-century United States, their courtship becomes a power struggle that echoes through generations, irrevocably changing what it means to be human.
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A war without a visible enemy forces soldiers to question what they are truly fighting.
Androne
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Military Sci-Fi
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A war without a visible enemy forces soldiers to question what they are truly fighting. Androne follows Sergeant Paxton Arés, a remote pilot deployed after a catastrophic global attack rewrites modern warfare. As rumors, loyalty, and fear collide in an unknowable desert conflict, Paxton’s search for truth becomes personal. This is near-future military science fiction centered on uncertainty, duty, and the consequences of fighting a war no one understands.
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Humanity’s new war is an enigma, with an enemy threat beyond all imagination, in this near-future novel of mind-blowing adventure where the fate of the world rests in the choices of one ordinary soldier.
In one terrifying event called the Ninety-Nine, all major military installations on earth were eviscerated. But by whom? Foreign powers, AIs, ETs? Every conceivable adversary was ruled out. Reeling from massive casualties and amid hundreds of conspiracy theories, humanity creates Andrones: bipedal android drones piloted remotely by soldiers who will never again need to be on the field of battle. Newly minted Androne pilot Sergeant Paxton Arés has now been deployed into a fight against an enemy no one understands or has ever seen.
Passing mostly uneventful days patrolling an unidentified desert, Paxton spends time communicating with his pregnant girlfriend back home and reflecting on his impending fatherhood. But as he is drawn deeper into military camaraderie and begins quickly rising up the ranks on the strength of his father’s military legacy, Paxton starts to question the swirling rumors about the nature of the conflict. What he’s encountered in the shifting dunes—something inexplicable, indomitable—fills him with the fear that whatever is out there is destined to win.
Whether it’s curiosity, ambition, or a newfound paternal instinct, Paxton has a driving need to understand the dangerous truths of this strange, invisible war. And the choices he must make have the power to change everything.
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A reluctant conscript stumbles into a war he never asked to fight.
Mercury Rising
Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion · First Contact · Space Opera
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A reluctant conscript stumbles into a war he never asked to fight. Mercury Rising follows Brooklyn, an ordinary man framed for murder and forced into Earth’s orbital defenses during an alien conflict that has already rewritten history. As space battles and buried conspiracies collide, survival demands more than obedience. This is an alternate-history science fiction novel driven by dark humor, escalating stakes, and the realization that the real threat may be closer than it appears.
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Top Gun in space!
An alternative history with aliens, an immortal misanthrope and SF tropes aplenty
The year is 1975 – Robert Oppenheimer has invented the Atomic Engine, the first human has walked on the moon, and Jet Carson and the Eagle Seven have sacrificed their lives to stop alien invaders.
Brooklyn, however, just wants to keep his head down, pay his mother’s rent, earn a little scratch of his own, and maybe get laid sometime. Simple pleasures! But life is about to get real complicated when a killer with a baseball bat and a mysterious box of 8-track tapes sets him up for murder.
So, his choices are limited – rot away in prison or sign up to defend the planet from the assholes who dropped a meteorite on Cleveland. Brooklyn crosses his fingers and picks the Earth Orbital Forces, believing that after a few years in the trenches – assuming he survives – he can get his life back. Unfortunately, the universe has other plans.
Brooklyn is launched into a quest to save humanity, find his true family, and grow as a person – while simultaneously coping with high-stakes space battles, mystery science experiments and the realisation that the true enemies perhaps aren’t the tentacled monsters on the recruitment poster… Or are they?
File Under: Science Fiction [ Little Green Men | Injection | Below the Crust | The Truth is out There ]
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Good for readers who want science-driven apocalyptic sci-fi, space discovery, and survival stakes.
Winter World
Dystopian · First Contact · Techno-Thriller
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Longlisted for the Wilbur Smith Award, Winter World follows a near-future NASA mission to investigate a mysterious object near Mars as a new ice age pushes humanity toward extinction, with a 4.5-star rating from more than 32,100 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want science-driven apocalyptic sci-fi, space discovery, and survival stakes.
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A new ice age—and a shocking discovery—will change humanity forever.
From the worldwide bestselling author of Lost in Time and Departure comes an epic novel with an unforgettable twist.
Longlisted for the Wilbur Smith Award for best published novel.
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, they identify a mysterious object moving toward the Sun. Is it the cause of the ice age? Or could it be humanity's only hope of survival?
With time running out, NASA launches a mission to make contact. But the object isn't what anyone thought. In the dark of space, alone, the team makes a discovery that will change the course of human history—and possibly end it.
Filled with real science and fascinating details, Winter World is that unique blend of fact and fiction that could completely change how you see our planet—and humanity's future.
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Good for readers who like sci-fi about virtual reality, identity, and hidden systems.
Veneer
Sci-Fi · Dystopian · Cyberpunk
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In 22nd-century Easton, Deron Bishop struggles to master the augmented-reality veneer that shapes life around him, until a violent incident leaves him seeing the world as it truly exists. Veneer follows his choice between abandoning Easton or fighting back toward the fantasy he once wanted, with a 3.8-star rating from more than 50 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who like sci-fi about virtual reality, identity, and hidden systems.
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In the 22nd century, augmented reality is no longer a novelty, but rather a way of life for citizens of Easton. Children are taught at a young age to control the ubiquitous layer of reality known as veneer through a process called reconciliation. Those who learn to reconcile live in a constant state of redefinition, of the world and of themselves. Those who struggle are forced to stand by and watch the world change without them.
For this skill, there are no shortcuts, no special glasses or handheld devices. The power to change comes from within.
Deron Bishop wants to live in the augmented world, to perform the magic of reconciliation like his peers, but controlling the veneer has always been a problem for him. Already resentful of the one thing he could never master, Deron doesn't realize how much he needs the veneer until a violent run-in with a childhood rival puts him in the hospital and robs him of his virtual sight.
Now able to see the world as it truly exists, Deron must choose to abandon Easton or fight his way back to the veneered fantasy of his previous life--a fight not everyone wants him to win.
Join Deron, his friends, and his enemies as they discover the truths that will be revealed when the virtual veil finally drops.
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