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959 past books matching Sci-Fi
Good for readers who want sci-fi thrillers built around psychic powers, body theft, and a fight for survival.
Psychomech
Horror · Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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Called “One of the best writers in the field” by New York Times bestselling author John Farris, A psychopath attempts to take over the body of a wounded soldier in this sci-fi thriller from a British Fantasy Award winning author, with a 4.3-star rating from more than 100 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want sci-fi thrillers built around psychic powers, body theft, and a fight for survival.
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A psychopath attempts to take over the body of a wounded soldier in this sci-fi thriller from a British Fantasy Award winning author.
Richard Garrison, a Corporal in the British Military Police, loses his sight while trying to save the wife and child of millionaire industrialist Thomas Schroeder from a terrorist bomb. While Garrison is recovering from his injuries, Schroeder makes him an offer the young man cannot refuse—refuge at Schroeder's luxurious mountain retreat and rehabilitation from the best doctors who can treat Garrison's blindness and if not cure him at least teach him a new way of life.
But Thomas Schroeder has a secret. He is dying and determined not to lose his life. The doctors tell him his body cannot be saved. But about his mind? Garrison's healthy young body would make an excellent replacement for Schroeder's failing corpus, if the machines to perform the operation can be perfected in time.
Garrison has no secrets of his own. Since the bombing that caused a loss of his sight, Garrison has become aware of new abilities slowly developing in his mind: mental powers he is beginning to master; strengths Schroeder cannot expect.
Richard Garrison and Thomas Schroeder, two strong-willed men locked in battle for the greatest prize—life itself.
"One of the best writers in the field." ―New York Times–bestselling author John Farris
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Two days until impact.
Rule of Extinction
Dystopian · Sci-Fi
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Two days until impact. Thousands of mysterious pods crash across Earth—offering the only escape from extinction. In Rule of Extinction, Geoff Jones launches The Preservation of Species trilogy, a pulse-pounding sci-fi adventure brimming with danger, mystery, and survival. With 4.2 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this post-apocalyptic epic asks: what if escaping Earth was the real nightmare?
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The world ends in two days. A comet races toward Earth, promising extinction for every living thing. Amid the chaos, thousands of strange pods crash across North America, alien, silent, and waiting. When touched, they open, revealing the only escape humanity might have left.
David Williams doesn’t care who sent them or why. He only knows he has one chance to save his wife and children before everything burns. But survival comes with a price. Inside the pods lies another world, one far more dangerous than the one they fled. As David fights to protect his family, he’ll uncover a terrifying truth about humanity’s place in the universe.
4.2 out of 5 stars on Amazon. A thrilling start to The Preservation of Species trilogy.
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Good for readers who want classic science fiction about rebellion, space politics, virtual consciousness, and authoritarian control.
Harvest of Stars
Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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In a future where individual freedom is a thing of the past, a long-dead entrepreneur's virtual persona threatens to incite a revolution from space that could topple Earth's powerful and repressive religious-technological dictatorship, with a 4.0-star rating from more than 90 Amazon reviewers. Good for readers who want classic science fiction about rebellion, space politics, virtual consciousness, and authoritarian control.
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The virtual persona of a long-dead entrepreneur threatens to incite a revolution that could topple Earth's dictatorship in this science fiction classic.
In the future, individual freedom is a thing of the past. North America is a police state controlled by the Avantist government, a despotic, techno-religious ruling order that promises an impending transcendence for the oppressed. Space, however, remains free, thanks to Anson Guthrie's powerful Fireball Corporation. Guthrie's corporeal self died many generations ago, but his essence lives on, preserved forever in a computerized state that enables him to inspire his loyal employees and adherents to keep reaching for the farthest stars.
But now the totalitarian enemy, led by sadistic secret policeman Enrique Sayre, has gained possession of a Guthrie download, intending to subvert it to the Avantist cause, thereby breaking Fireball's hold on the cosmos. The corporation is doomed unless ace pilot Kyra Davis can smuggle a still-unreconstructed version of Guthrie out of enslaved America and rocket him to the moon and beyond, where Fireball's virtual creator can attempt to stoke the flames of revolution—and change the direction of his world.
A truly remarkable work, Harvest of Stars might be the most ingenious and ambitious novel of Poul Anderson's acclaimed and prolific career. Thoughtful and adventurous, rich in imagination and integrity, it offers definitive proof of the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning, Grand Master of Science Fiction's unparalleled mastery in the field of speculative fiction.
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In Tigra by R. J. Leahy (4.6 out of 5 stars), a battle-scarred soldier crash-lands on a desert world and bonds with a tiger-like creature who may be…
Tigra
Sci-Fi · Galactic Empire · Military Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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In Tigra by R. J. Leahy (4.6 out of 5 stars), a battle-scarred soldier crash-lands on a desert world and bonds with a tiger-like creature who may be more than he seems. Together, they’ll ignite rebellion and reshape a galaxy. A sweeping sci-fi fantasy of destiny, courage, and the connection between beast and human.
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Jeena Garza wanted only peace. After surviving war and captivity, the elite soldier crash-lands on the desert world of Ararat, hoping to disappear into silence. But fate—and the galaxy—has other plans. In the shifting dunes, she encounters Samson, a tiger-like creature feared by all who know his kind. Yet Samson is no mindless beast. He’s gentle, intelligent, and perhaps something far greater.
As forgotten prophecies awaken and empires tremble, Jeena and Samson are bound by a destiny neither chose. To save him, she must rally a lost people, confront an ancient power, and challenge the very order of creation.
R. J. Leahy’s Tigra is a breathtaking fusion of sci-fi and myth—an epic tale of war, compassion, and what it means to be human.
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Zombies, politics, and viral media collide in Feed, the award-winning thriller by Mira Grant.
Feed
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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Zombies, politics, and viral media collide in Feed, the award-winning thriller by Mira Grant. Twenty years after humanity’s cure turned fatal, journalists Georgia and Shaun Mason chase a story that could cost them everything. Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award and rated 4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this is smart, fearless, post-apocalyptic fiction.
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The year was 2014. Humanity cured cancer and conquered the common cold. In the process, we created something worse. The virus didn’t die, it adapted, turning the dead into predators and the living into prey. Twenty years later, the world has learned to survive the Rising. News is power, and truth is deadly.
Georgia and Shaun Mason are fearless journalists chasing their next big story, uncovering corruption in a rebuilt America where fear rules every headline. But when they stumble on evidence of a massive government cover-up, the story becomes bigger, and bloodier, than they imagined.
In a world where information spreads faster than infection, one wrong post could end it all. And some truths are worth dying for.
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Best for readers who like science fiction survival stories with hostile planets, alien intelligence, first contact, and creeping dread.
Shroud
Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
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A #1 bestseller in Space Exploration Science Fiction eBooks, Shroud follows Juna and Mai after a catastrophic accident strands them on a lethal alien moon where the darkness may be alive, with a 4.6-star rating from more than 5,300 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like science fiction survival stories with hostile planets, alien intelligence, first contact, and creeping dread.
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On a planet shrouded in darkness, a stranded crew must fight for survival. But, the darkness may have plans of its own in this wildly original story from Adrian Tchaikovsky, Hugo and Arthur C. Clarke Award–winning author of Children of Time.
They looked into the darkness and the darkness looked back . . .
New planets are fair game to asset strippers and interplanetary opportunists – and a commercial mission to a distant star system discovers a moon that is pitch black, but alive with radio activity. Its high-gravity, high-pressure, zero-oxygen environment is anathema to human life, but ripe for exploitation. They named it Shroud.
Under no circumstances should a human end up on Shroud’s inhospitable surface. Except a catastrophic accident sees Juna Ceelander and Mai Ste Etienne doing just that. Forced to stage an emergency landing, in a small, barely adequate vehicle, they are unable to contact their ship and are running out of time. What follows is a gruelling journey across land, sea and air. During this time, Juna and Mai begin to understand Shroud’s dominant species. It also begins to understand them . . .
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In The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (4.6 out of 5 stars), Arthur Dent and his oddball crew hurtle through space in search…
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Speculative Fiction · Sci-Fi
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In The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams (4.6 out of 5 stars), Arthur Dent and his oddball crew hurtle through space in search of dinner and meaning. Equal parts satire and sci-fi chaos, this sequel to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy proves the universe’s end can still be wildly entertaining.
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Arthur Dent didn’t plan on leaving Earth—or watching it get vaporized by bureaucratic aliens—but here he is, hitching a ride across the galaxy with the weirdest crew imaginable. Alongside Ford Prefect, Zaphod Beeblebrox, Trillian, and Marvin the perpetually depressed android, Arthur just wants a quiet meal. Instead, they’re dodging destruction, confusion, and the occasional philosophical crisis as they search for the universe’s most exclusive dining experience.
At the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, dinner comes with a view of the apocalypse and the steak introduces itself before being served.
Douglas Adams’s The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is a brilliantly absurd, laugh-out-loud continuation of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy—equal parts chaos, comedy, and cosmic genius.
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz comes The House at the End of the World, a pulse-pounding thriller with 4.4 out of 5 stars on…
The House at the End of the World
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Suspense
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz comes The House at the End of the World, a pulse-pounding thriller with 4.4 out of 5 stars on Amazon. When an artist’s island refuge becomes ground zero for an unearthly threat, survival turns into an act of courage, and faith in the face of the unknowable.
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Soon no one on Earth will have a place to hide in this novel about fears known and unknown by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz.
In retreat from a devastating loss and crushing injustice, Katie lives alone in a fortresslike stone house on Jacob’s Ladder island. Once a rising star in the art world, she finds refuge in her painting.
The neighboring island of Ringrock houses a secret: a government research facility. And now two agents have arrived on Jacob’s Ladder in search of someone—or something—they refuse to identify. Although an air of menace hangs over these men, an infinitely greater threat has arrived, one so strange even the island animals are in a state of high alarm.
Katie soon finds herself in an epic and terrifying battle with a mysterious enemy. But Katie’s not alone after all: a brave young girl appears out of the violent squall. As Katie and her companion struggle across a dark and eerie landscape, against them is an omnipresent terror that could bring about the end of the world.
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Winner of the Nebula Award, Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents continues the visionary saga begun in Parable of the Sower.
Parable of the Talents
Dystopian · Sci-Fi
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Winner of the Nebula Award, Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents continues the visionary saga begun in Parable of the Sower. With 4.6 out of 5 stars on Amazon, this chilling dystopian classic follows a woman’s fight to preserve hope under a regime built on hate. A prophetic tale as urgent now as when it was written.
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In 2032, America has crumbled into chaos, ruled by a tyrant who weaponizes faith and fear. Lauren Olamina, founder of Earthseed, has built a fragile sanctuary for those the new regime seeks to erase. Her vision—to guide humanity toward the stars—makes her both a prophet and a target.
As violence closes in, Lauren’s ideals are tested against survival itself. Years later, her daughter, Asha Vere, pieces together her mother’s journals, uncovering the painful truth of a woman torn between love, leadership, and an unyielding belief in humanity’s potential.
Winner of the Nebula Award, Parable of the Talents is Octavia E. Butler’s haunting and prescient masterpiece, a story of resistance, faith, and the brutal cost of hope in a broken world.
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Hiron Ennes’s Leech, winner of the RUSA Best Horror Novel of 2023, merges gothic dread with sci-fi brilliance.
Leech
Horror · Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Speculative Fiction
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Hiron Ennes’s Leech, winner of the RUSA Best Horror Novel of 2023, merges gothic dread with sci-fi brilliance. Praised by Gillian Flynn as “beautifully written” and “strangely humane,” this 4.4 out of 5 stars debut follows a parasitic doctor battling a rival infection in a frozen chateau. Equal parts The Thing and Wuthering Heights, it is horrifying, elegant, and unforgettable.
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Deep in the frozen north, the baron’s doctor is dead. His replacement arrives to uncover how the body failed—and discovers a secret more unsettling than decay. The Institute has ruled medicine for centuries, its doctors more organism than individual, a collective mind that heals, controls, and consumes.
But now something new is spreading through the chateau. A parasite. A rival. A living contagion that threatens to devour the Institute itself. As the doctor hunts the infection, identity blurs and evolution becomes warfare.
Hiron Ennes’s Leech is a haunting blend of gothic horror and science fiction, a meditation on body, mind, and the cost of survival.
Humanity is no longer the dominant species. The question is whether it ever was.
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Emily St.
Sea of Tranquility
Literary Fiction · Sci-Fi · Contemporary Fiction · Speculative Fiction · Time Travel
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Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility, a New York Times bestseller and Best Book of the Year pick by NPR and The New York Times, weaves time travel, art, and love into a haunting mosaic. From 1912 forests to moon colonies, Mandel crafts a 4.4 out of 5 stars novel that is both intimate and cosmic in its scope.
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From the author of Station Eleven comes a breathtaking meditation on time, memory, and connection that spans centuries and worlds.
In 1912, exiled eighteen-year-old Edwin St. Andrew wanders into a Canadian forest and hears something impossible: the faint strains of a violin inside an airship terminal. Two hundred years later, a celebrated author named Olive Llewellyn tours Earth with her own haunting book about a pandemic. And in the far future, detective Gaspery-Jacques Roberts investigates an anomaly that links their lives across time.
What he discovers bends the limits of reality and reveals the fragile beauty of human existence.
Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility is a tender, time-spanning masterpiece about how love and art echo through the ages.
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Ray Bradbury’s The October Country collects nineteen eerie tales that blend poetic horror with human heart.
The October Country
Horror · Sci-Fi
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Ray Bradbury’s The October Country collects nineteen eerie tales that blend poetic horror with human heart. From ghostly carnivals to drowned cities, these stories capture the haunting beauty of autumn’s edge. With 4.5 out of 5 stars, this timeless classic cements Bradbury as the Grand Master of dark imagination. Enter if you dare, but you may never leave.
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Step into The October Country, where twilight lingers, midnights never end, and every shadow hides a story. In nineteen haunting tales, Ray Bradbury peels back the skin of the ordinary to reveal the strange, the sorrowful, and the supernatural beneath.
A drowned city whispers of the dead. A carnival hums with secret hungers. In forgotten towns and fog-drenched hills, the everyday tilts toward the uncanny, and human longing becomes its own ghost.
With poetic dread and piercing empathy, Bradbury captures the dark beauty of fear itself, transforming horror into art.
For readers of The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man, this collection is both a love letter to the macabre and an invitation to linger where autumn never ends.
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