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959 past books matching Sci-Fi
Frank Herbert’s Dune isn’t just a sci-fi classic—it’s the spice-fueled fever dream that launched a thousand fandoms.
Dune
Sci-Fi · Galactic Empire · Space Opera
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Frank Herbert’s Dune isn’t just a sci-fi classic—it’s the spice-fueled fever dream that launched a thousand fandoms. With messianic prophecies, warring noble houses, and a hero caught in a deadly desert prophecy, it’s earned 4.6 out of 5 stars and the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Ready to conquer Arrakis? Grab the book that changed science fiction forever.
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Power, prophecy, and politics collide on the desert world of Arrakis.
Young Paul Atreides has no idea he’s about to become the most important figure in the galaxy—or its most hunted. Born into nobility but thrust into exile, Paul must master survival in a brutal wasteland where water is currency, betrayal is constant, and ancient prophecies stir in the sand.
As rival houses, religious orders, and imperial forces vie for control of the spice that powers the universe, Paul faces a future that’s both predestined and deadly. But if he embraces the path of Muad'Dib, he may awaken a power that topples empires—and rewrites the fate of humanity.
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, Dune is the kind of sci-fi epic that reshapes the genre.
Can one boy change the destiny of a world?
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A strong fit for readers who like literary post-apocalyptic fiction, nonlinear timelines, ensemble casts, and stories about art, memory, and community after collapse.
Station Eleven
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Time Travel
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A national bestseller and National Book Award finalist, Station Eleven follows actress Kirsten Raymonde and the Traveling Symphony twenty years after a flu pandemic, as they perform across Great Lakes settlements and confront a violent prophet, with a 4.1-star average from more than 640,000 Goodreads ratings. A strong fit for readers who like literary post-apocalyptic fiction, nonlinear timelines, ensemble casts, and stories about art, memory, and community after collapse.
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This Anniversary Edition of Station Eleven, a finalist for the National Book Award and named a Best Book of the Twenty-First Century by the New York Times, celebrates ten years of this now iconic novel with a new color illustration and a guide to “The Mandelverse”
A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century
An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days following civilization's collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.
It is fifteen years after a flu pandemic wiped out most of the world's population. Kirsten is an actress with the Traveling Symphony, a small troupe moving over the gutted landscape, performing Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors. But when they arrive in the outpost of St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who digs graves for anyone who dares to leave. Spanning decades, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the disaster brought everyone here, this suspenseful, elegiac novel is rife with beauty, telling a story about the relationships that sustain us.
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Twisty, paranoid, and completely addictive, this is the next must-read for fans of Black Mirror, The One, and high-stakes conspiracy thrillers.
The Minders
Psychological Fiction · Sci-Fi · Techno-Thriller
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With 4.3 stars on Amazon, The Minders is John Marrs’ pulse-pounding near-future thriller where five people carry classified secrets in their DNA. But one of them isn’t who they seem. Twisty, paranoid, and completely addictive, this is the next must-read for fans of Black Mirror, The One, and high-stakes conspiracy thrillers.
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What if the government’s biggest secrets were locked inside your head?
In a future where data is too dangerous to store digitally, five strangers are chosen for a radical solution: have classified intel encoded into their DNA. As newly minted “Minders,” they each carry the nation’s most explosive truths—off the grid, untraceable, and walking targets.
Given new identities and a fresh start, they’re promised safety and purpose. But each of them harbors secrets of their own—and one among them can’t be trusted.
From the bestselling author of The One, The Minders is a fast-paced, paranoia-fueled thriller that asks how far you'd go to protect what you know—and who you really are when no one else is watching.
Because when everyone’s a secret, who’s keeping score?
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The Book of Lost Hours is a sweeping, lyrical debut perfect for fans of The Midnight Library.
The Book of Lost Hours
Romance · Time Travel
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A girl lost in time. A memory library under siege. And a chance to change the future. The Book of Lost Hours is a sweeping, lyrical debut perfect for fans of The Midnight Library. With 4.6 stars on Amazon, this time-bending literary novel blends Cold War intrigue, alternate history, and the fragile power of memory into one unforgettable journey.
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Somewhere beyond time, a library holds the memories of everyone who has lived. You just need the right watch to open its doors.
In 1938, eleven-year-old Lisavet Levy is accidentally left behind in the time space, a vast archive of memory-books accessed only by special timepieces. She grows up among the echoes of other lives, watching history unfold through the eyes of the dead.
When agents begin destroying volumes to erase inconvenient truths, Lisavet secretly preserves what she can. Then in 1949, a spy named Ernest Duquesne enters the time space and offers her a way back to the world.
Now Lisavet must decide if rewriting history is worth risking everything she has built. The clock is ticking, and some memories refuse to stay buried.
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A secret society.
The Society of Unknowable Objects
Time Travel · Sci-Fi · Alternate History
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A secret society. A magical archive. A killer with a vendetta. In The Society of Unknowable Objects, Gareth Brown delivers a fast-paced fantasy thriller where everyday items hold impossible power. With 4.4 stars on Amazon and the intrigue of The Book of Doors, this standalone novel will keep you hooked from London to Hong Kong to the haunted corners of the American South.
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Magical objects exist. Most people just don’t know it.
Hidden in a London bookshop basement, three unlikely guardians meet every six months to protect a secret archive of powerful items. For decades, the world has stayed quiet. Until now.
When rumors surface about a new artifact in Hong Kong, Magda Sparks—author by day, society member by night—is sent to investigate. Within hours, she’s dodging bullets, fleeing assassins, and using magic no one knew she had.
Back in London, Magda uncovers deeper secrets. Not just about the artifacts, but about her own legacy and the true mission of the society she pledged to serve.
From the alleys of Hong Kong to the heat of the American South, Magda must face a deadly truth.
Some objects should stay hidden. Some secrets should not.
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It fits readers who want fleet warfare, imperial power struggles, and high-stakes space opera.
The Praxis
Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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An empire built on absolute control begins to crack in The Praxis, where the death of a ruling species opens the door to war, ambition, and collapse. As Gareth Martinez and Caroline Sula confront a rising threat, the novel blends military science fiction with political upheaval on an interstellar scale. It fits readers who want fleet warfare, imperial power struggles, and high-stakes space opera.
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“Space opera the way it ought to be [...] Bujold and Weber, bend the knee; interstellar adventure has a new king, and his name is Walter Jon Williams.” -- George R.R. Martin
The first book in the completed Dread Empire's Fall trilogy, followed by The Sundering and Conventions of War.
All will must bend to the perfect truth of The Praxis
For millennia, the Shaa have subjugated the universe, forcing the myriad sentient races to bow to their joyless tyranny. But the Shaa will soon be no more. The dread empire is in its rapidly fading twilight, and with its impending fall comes the promise of a new galactic order . . . and bloody chaos.
A young Terran naval officer marked by his lowly birth, Lt. Gareth Martinez is the first to recognize the insidious plot of the Naxid -- the powerful, warlike insectoid society that was enslaved before all others -- to replace the masters’ despotic rule with their own. Barely escaping a swarming surprise attack, Martinez and Caroline Sula, a pilot whose beautiful face conceals a deadly secret, are now the last hope for freedom for every being who ever languished in Shaa chains -- as the interstellar battle begins against a merciless foe whose only perfect truth is annihilation.
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Teleportation gets a glitchy upgrade in The Punch Escrow, a 4.3-star sci-fi romp hailed by Felicia Day as unputdownable.
The Punch Escrow
Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Techno-Thriller
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Teleportation gets a glitchy upgrade in The Punch Escrow, a 4.3-star sci-fi romp hailed by Felicia Day as unputdownable. When Joel is accidentally cloned mid-teleport, he’s forced to outwit tech giants and extremists—while navigating marriage problems and existential dread. Smart, sharp, and hilarious, Tal Klein’s debut is Black Mirror meets The Martian, with twice the protagonist.
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Teleportation is the future—until it duplicates you.
In 2147, Joel Byram is just your average sarcastic AI trainer, obsessing over '80s music and struggling to save his marriage. But when a teleportation mishap creates a second Joel, he’s thrust into a deadly conspiracy involving the world’s most powerful tech company and a fanatical religious group hellbent on wiping teleportation—and him—off the map.
Now Joel must outwit corporate overlords, avoid assassination, and solve the ultimate existential crisis: what happens when you’re no longer the only you?
Smart, funny, and brimming with high-octane twists, The Punch Escrow is a hard-science thriller with heart, humor, and a killer concept.
Because when the future goes off-script, you’d better be the version of yourself that can survive it.
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From Hugo winner Sarah Pinsker comes We Are Satellites (4.3 stars on Amazon), a haunting, near-future novel where brain implants promise success—but quietly divide society.
We Are Satellites
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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From Hugo winner Sarah Pinsker comes We Are Satellites (4.3 stars on Amazon), a haunting, near-future novel where brain implants promise success—but quietly divide society. As one family fractures over who gets the tech and who resists, questions of autonomy, pressure, and power collide. Taut, timely, and emotionally resonant sci-fi with a rebellious streak.
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When brain implants become the new normal, one family is split by the choice.
Val and Julie want what’s best for their kids. So when their son David asks for a “Pilot”—a sleek brain-enhancing implant designed to boost focus—they say yes. Soon everyone’s getting one: students, professionals, even Julie. Everyone except Val and daughter Sophie.
But the more “connected” the world becomes, the more Sophie sees what’s being lost—and who’s being left behind.
As the divide deepens and the Pilot becomes impossible to escape, Sophie joins a resistance movement that will challenge corporate power, societal pressure, and her own family.
In We Are Satellites, Hugo Award winner Sarah Pinsker delivers a smart, intimate, and chilling look at the cost of progress—and the power of dissent.
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Award-winning author Kameron Hurley delivers a 4.4-star sci-fi mindwarp in The Light Brigade, a gritty military thriller where soldiers are transformed into particles of light—and time itself is…
The Light Brigade
Sci-Fi · Military Sci-Fi · Time Travel
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Award-winning author Kameron Hurley delivers a 4.4-star sci-fi mindwarp in The Light Brigade, a gritty military thriller where soldiers are transformed into particles of light—and time itself is a weapon. Think Starship Troopers meets Slaughterhouse-Five, with more rage, trauma, and corporate corruption. If you like your sci-fi wild, smart, and devastating, enlist now.
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War turns soldiers into light—literally.
In the corporate-run war against Mars, infantry grunts are broken down into particles and beamed to distant battlefronts. Most return changed. Some don’t return at all. But when fresh recruit Dietz starts dropping into battles that don’t align with mission briefings, something becomes terrifyingly clear: reality is out of sync.
Each combat drop reveals pieces of a war that isn’t what it seems—and a truth the corporate brass would kill to keep buried. As Dietz spirals through time, memory, and mayhem, survival means more than following orders. It means questioning everything.
From Hugo Award winner Kameron Hurley, The Light Brigade is a mind-bending sci-fi thriller that blends military grit with temporal chaos in a blistering indictment of war, loyalty, and corporate control.
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Readers who enjoy multitimeline speculative fiction about Maya history, identity, religion, and imagined future societies should find plenty to like here.
The Actual Star
Alternate History · Historical Fiction · LGBTQIA+ · Sci-Fi
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New Scientist called it “A stone-cold masterpiece.” Three stories set in 1012, 2012, and 3012 follow characters separated by centuries whose lives converge around the same sacred cave in Belize, with a 3.9-star average from more than 2,900 Goodreads ratings. Readers who enjoy multitimeline speculative fiction about Maya history, identity, religion, and imagined future societies should find plenty to like here.
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David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas meets Octavia Butler's Earthseed series, as acclaimed author Monica Byrne (The Girl in the Road) crafts an unforgettable piece of speculative fiction about where humanity came from, where we are now, and where we're going—and how, in every age, the same forces that drive us apart also bind us together.
"A stone-cold masterpiece."—New Scientist
The Actual Star takes readers on a journey over two millennia and six continents—telling three powerful tales a thousand years apart, all of them converging in the same cave in the Belizean jungle.
Braided together are the stories of a pair of teenage twins who ascend the throne of a Maya kingdom; a young American woman on a trip of self-discovery in Belize; and two dangerous charismatics vying for the leadership of a new religion, racing toward a confrontation that will determine the fate of the few humans left on Earth after massive climate change.
In each era, a reincarnated trinity of souls navigates the entanglements of tradition and progress, sister and stranger, and love and hate—until all of their age-old questions about the nature of existence converge deep underground, where only in complete darkness can they truly see.
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A 4.4-star New York Times bestseller, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is Hank Green’s compulsively readable debut about viral fame, global mystery, and the strange intimacy of internet culture.
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
Contemporary Fiction · Literary Fiction · Sci-Fi
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A 4.4-star New York Times bestseller, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is Hank Green’s compulsively readable debut about viral fame, global mystery, and the strange intimacy of internet culture. When alien statues appear worldwide, one woman becomes their accidental spokesperson—and the center of an online storm. Smart, weird, and wildly relevant, this is sci-fi for the age of influencers.
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The Carls just appeared—and April May just became famous.
When 23-year-old April stumbles across a towering, armored statue in Manhattan, she uploads a quick video. By morning, it’s viral. By nightfall, she’s a global sensation. But she’s not the only one—Carls have appeared in cities around the world, and April’s at the center of the mystery.
Fame comes fast, and it comes with a cost. As April navigates her skyrocketing celebrity, cryptic clues, and internet-fueled chaos, she must decide what kind of icon she wants to be—and what the Carls really want.
Smart, funny, and unsettlingly prescient, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing is a dazzling debut that blends sci-fi mystery with a razor-sharp look at fame, identity, and the internet’s power to build—or destroy.
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Featuring a queer, robot-human love story and razor-sharp commentary on capitalism, this thought-provoking debut is perfect for fans of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson.
Autonomous
Sci-Fi · Cyberpunk · Hard Sci-Fi
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A Hugo finalist with 4.3 stars on Amazon, Autonomous by Annalee Newitz is a gripping biotech thriller set in a future where ownership is everything. Featuring a queer, robot-human love story and razor-sharp commentary on capitalism, this thought-provoking debut is perfect for fans of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson. Freedom isn’t free—especially when you’re patented.
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In 2144, everything is owned—drugs, data, even people.
Jack is a rogue scientist-turned-drug pirate, fighting Big Pharma with bootlegged meds for the poor. But her latest hack goes wrong. The drug she reverse-engineered makes users addicted to work—fatally so. Now she’s being hunted.
On her trail: Eliasz, a government agent with a violent past, and Paladin, a newly minted military robot learning to navigate identity, desire, and loyalty.
As their chase spans continents and moral lines blur, Autonomous asks what freedom really means in a world run by corporations and bound by patents. Can autonomy exist when ownership defines everything?
Tense, smart, and wildly original, Annalee Newitz’s Hugo-nominated debut is Neuromancer for the biotech age—a bold fusion of hard sci-fi and urgent ethical questions.
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