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958 past books matching Sci-Fi
Ideal for readers looking for science fiction built around genetic engineering, corporate ambition, dinosaurs, and escalating survival suspense.
Jurassic Park
Sci-Fi · Thriller
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On a remote island, genetic engineers have created a theme park populated by living dinosaurs, but corporate sabotage and failing systems leave its visitors trapped among dangerous predators, with a 4.1-star average from more than 1,090,000 Goodreads ratings. Ideal for readers looking for science fiction built around genetic engineering, corporate ambition, dinosaurs, and escalating survival suspense.
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Dinosaurs walk the Earth again. What could possibly go wrong?
Using a groundbreaking genetic breakthrough, scientists have resurrected creatures lost to history. Now, on a remote island off the coast of Costa Rica, a billionaire’s dream has become a prehistoric theme park filled with living, breathing dinosaurs.
At first, the marvel seems unstoppable. But nature doesn’t follow human blueprints. When the system fails and the dinosaurs escape, every guest becomes prey in a game of survival.
Jurassic Park is Michael Crichton at his most inventive and terrifying. Blending cutting-edge science with breakneck suspense, this international bestseller changed the way readers think about genetic engineering and blockbuster storytelling.
Once the gates open, there’s no turning back.
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Time travel meets academic chaos in Just One Damned Thing After Another (4.4 stars on Amazon), the riotous start to Jodi Taylor’s beloved Chronicles of St Mary’s.
Just One Damned Thing After Another
Sci-Fi · Time Travel
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Time travel meets academic chaos in Just One Damned Thing After Another (4.4 stars on Amazon), the riotous start to Jodi Taylor’s beloved Chronicles of St Mary’s. Think Terry Pratchett meets Doctor Who, with a heroine who takes no nonsense and a timeline that bites back. History has never been so hilariously dangerous. Start your journey through time right here.
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Dr. Madeleine “Max” Maxwell didn’t expect her new job to involve dodging arrows, running from fire, or trying not to die in the 14th century.
At St Mary’s Institute of Historical Research, historians don’t just read about the past. They go there. Literally. With time-travel pods, questionable safety procedures, and a team of eccentric academics, Max finds herself thrust into history’s biggest disasters.
The mission is simple: observe, document, and don’t change anything. But time has a nasty sense of humor, and history doesn’t like being watched.
From the Cretaceous period to the reign of Richard III, chaos is guaranteed. So is tea.
Just One Damned Thing After Another is wildly clever, gloriously unpredictable, and the unforgettable beginning to a series you didn’t know you needed.
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In Steelheart, Brandon Sanderson unleashes a dystopian thrill ride where superpowered tyrants rule and rebellion is deadly.
Steelheart
Sci-Fi · Teen + Young Adult
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In Steelheart, Brandon Sanderson unleashes a dystopian thrill ride where superpowered tyrants rule and rebellion is deadly. David's father was killed by the invincible Steelheart—now, with the Reckoners at his side, he's ready to fight back. With 4.6 stars on Amazon, this #1 New York Times bestseller kicks off an explosive YA sci-fi series you won’t forget.
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What if the world’s new rulers were superpowered—and evil?
Ten years ago, Steelheart destroyed Chicago, murdered David’s father, and proved that no one with powers—Epics—could be trusted. Now, the city lies in ruins under his tyrannical rule, renamed Newcago, a place where fear is law and resistance is suicide.
But David isn’t afraid. He’s spent a decade studying Epics—especially Steelheart—and he’s discovered something others refuse to believe: the invincible can bleed.
To bring Steelheart down, David must join the Reckoners, a secret group waging war against the Epics. He has the knowledge. They have the firepower. Together, they might have a chance.
But as they close in, David will face questions that challenge everything he believes—because sometimes vengeance isn’t as simple as justice.
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A sharp fit for readers drawn to science fiction with espionage, murder mysteries, and interstellar travel.
Night Train to Rigel
Sci-Fi · First Contact · Space Opera
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Called “rip-roaring” by Publishers Weekly, this space-opera thriller follows former government agent Frank Compton as a stranger’s death draws him aboard the interstellar Quadrail and into a conspiracy that threatens the galaxy, with a 3.9-star average from more than 3,400 Goodreads ratings. A sharp fit for readers drawn to science fiction with espionage, murder mysteries, and interstellar travel.
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A secret agent aboard a galactic railroad must derail a sinister conspiracy in this "rip-roaring" thriller by the #1 bestselling author of Star Wars: Thrawn (Publishers Weekly).
Hugo Award–Winning Author
The universe is a dangerous place, a fact violently brought home to Frank Compton for perhaps the thousandth time when a stranger delivering a message dies right in front of him. An operative for Western Alliance Intelligence until his whistle-blowing activities got him fired, Compton is now being sought out by the Spiders, the robotic alien beings responsible for the upkeep and operation of the Quadrail transportation system, which connects the galaxy's twelve inhabited empires. The discovery of a sinister plot to use the Quadrail for ill has brought the Spiders to Compton—for only someone possessing the former agent's unique skills can stop the scheme for good.
But when Compton leaves Earth behind—joining forces with Bayta, the Spiders' beautiful, half-human representative aboard the Quadrail—the terrifying scope of a vast, galaxy-wide conspiracy begins to reveal itself. Targeted on all sides by alien assassins of every shape and species, Compton and his enigmatic new partner are suddenly in a race against a clock ticking down to an irreversible doomsday, one in which the galactic night train will derail, carrying all members of humanity screaming to their deaths.
The first in the Quadrail series from the Hugo Award–winning author of Blackcollar and many New York Times–bestselling Star Wars novels, Night Train to Rigel is an action-packed "great read" (Booklist).
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This fits readers who want dark humor with sharp social tension and escalating mystery.
I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom
Dystopian · Sci-Fi
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A locked box, a strange passenger, and a cross-country trip turn paranoia into a national contagion in I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom. As rumors mutate online and the journey grows more dangerous, two misfits become trapped inside a thriller shaped by fear, misinformation, and modern American anxiety. This fits readers who want dark humor with sharp social tension and escalating mystery.
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THE INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER
A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin.
Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large black box. She offers him $200,000 cash to transport her and that box across the country, to Washington, DC.
But there are rules:
He cannot look inside the box.
He cannot ask questions.
He cannot tell anyone.
They must leave immediately.
He must leave all trackable devices behind.
As these eccentric misfits hit the road, rumors spread on social media that the box is part of a carefully orchestrated terror attack intended to plunge the USA into civil war.
The truth promises to be even stranger, and may change how you see the world.
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No hyperspace, just hard science.
Gravity Wars: Interstellar Assault
Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Military Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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No hyperspace, just hard science. In Interstellar Assault, a generational starship flees annihilation while three alien missiles close in—over 300 years. From bestselling author Vaughn Heppner comes a gripping saga of nuclear-powered ships, generational heroes, and the grim reality of space war. Fans of The Expanse and Red Mars will devour this 4.4-star hard sci-fi epic.
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No warp drives. No telepathy. No shortcuts. Just pure science and the brutal reality of deep space warfare.
As a ravaged race flees the relentless Vims aboard a massive generational ship, the clock starts ticking—three interstellar missiles have been launched. They’ll take 300 years to arrive, but the chase has begun.
From the heroic Sargon to his descendants Ningal and Assur, this is a saga of survival, betrayal, and raw courage. Meanwhile, on 2060 Earth, powerful CEO James Petty and Colonel Mike Steele helm the planet’s desperate response: the Orion, a nuclear-bomb-propelled starship.
In a war measured in centuries and fought across stars, only one truth remains—gravity always wins.
Welcome to Interstellar Assault—where the science is real, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
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Best for readers who like philosophical, far-future sci-fi.
City
Dystopian · Sci-Fi
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In this classic science fiction novel, intelligent dogs inherit Earth after humans abandon the cities, leave for the stars, and fade into legend. Guided by the ageless robot Jenkins, they preserve stories of the lost websters while facing threats from other dimensions and the dangerous return of Man, with a 4.4-star rating from more than 2,700 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like philosophical, far-future sci-fi.
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This award-winning science fiction classic explores a far-future world inhabited by intelligent canines who pass down the tales of their human forefathers.
Thousands of years have passed since humankind abandoned the city—first for the countryside, then for the stars, and ultimately for oblivion—leaving their most loyal animal companions alone on Earth. Granted the power of speech centuries earlier by the revered Bruce Webster, the intelligent, pacifist dogs are the last keepers of human history, raising their pups with bedtime stories, passed down through generations, of the lost "websters" who gave them so much but will never return.
With the aid of Jenkins, an ageless service robot, the dogs live in a world of harmony and peace. But they now face serious threats from their own and other dimensions, perhaps the most dangerous of all being the reawakened remnants of a warlike race called "Man."
In the Golden Age of Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein, Clifford D. Simak's writing blazed as brightly as anyone's in the science fiction firmament. Winner of the International Fantasy Award, City is a magnificent literary metropolis filled with an astonishing array of interlinked stories and structures—at once dystopian, transcendent, compassionate, and visionary.
The third author to be honored as a Grand Master of Science Fiction by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA), Clifford D. Simak also received three Hugo Awards, a Nebula Award, an International Fantasy Award, and a Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Ideal for readers looking for cerebral science fiction, Gothic atmosphere, recurring realities, and a slowly unfolding mystery.
Eversion
Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Space Exploration · Space Opera
Our take
Dr. Silas Coade serves as physician aboard a series of expeditions separated by centuries, from a sailing ship and an airship to a spacecraft approaching a mysterious alien structure. As each journey ends in disaster, Silas begins to question why events keep repeating. Ideal for readers looking for cerebral science fiction, Gothic atmosphere, recurring realities, and a slowly unfolding mystery.
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From the master of the space opera comes a dark, mind-bending adventure spread across time and space, where Doctor Silas Coade is tasked with keeping his crew safe as they adventure across the galaxy in search of a mysterious artifact.
In the 1800s, a sailing ship crashes off the coast of Norway. In the 1900s, a Zepellin explores an icy canyon in Antarctica. In the far future, a spaceship sets out for an alien artifact. Each excursion goes horribly wrong. And on every journey, Dr. Silas Coade is the physician, but only Silas seems to realize that these events keep repeating themselves. And it's up to him to figure out why and how. And how to stop it all from happening again.
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No demands.
The Alien Years
Dystopian · First Contact
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No demands. No diplomacy. Just domination. The Alien Years by Robert Silverberg is a multigenerational sci-fi saga of quiet rebellion and unbreakable spirit. With 4.0 stars on Amazon and praise from Publishers Weekly, this Hugo and Nebula winner’s novel explores whether freedom can survive when the enemy is unbeatable.
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When aliens invade, a generations-long struggle begins against an impenetrable enemy in this sci-fi epic from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author.
The Entities have arrived on Earth, fifteen feet tall with impenetrable defenses and inscrutable motives. As conquerors, they have no demands, no explanations, simply harsh consequences should they be challenged. Releasing a plague and plunging the world into a new Dark Age, the Entities seem unbeatable. But, one family at least—the Carmichael clan led by Colonel Anson Carmichael—will never give up the resistance.
THE ALIEN YEARS is an epic story told over multiple generations by master of thoughtful science fiction Robert Silverberg. Can ideas of freedom survive in the face of an overwhelmingly powerful enemy? "A remarkable study of human endurance and patience that belongs in most SF collections." —The Library Journal
"Sobering and frightening…. Silverberg's rich characters, his dead-on-target vision of modern society, his mastery at building tension—all are in evidence in this notable outing from one of the very best." —Publishers Weekly
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A mercenary turned reluctant mage, Sun Wolf faces his deadliest foe yet when a dark curse targets his former crew.
The Dark Hand of Magic
Fantasy · Sci-Fi · Dark Fantasy · Military Sci-Fi
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A mercenary turned reluctant mage, Sun Wolf faces his deadliest foe yet when a dark curse targets his former crew. From bestselling author Barbara Hambly comes a gripping tale of sword, sorcery, and loyalty tested by shadow. The Dark Hand of Magic is rich, fast-paced fantasy at its finest.
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Once, Sun Wolf’s name struck fear across the land. As the cunning leader of a ruthless band of mercenaries, he was unmatched—until he discovered a far more dangerous power: magic. Leaving his blade for spellcraft, Sun Wolf and his fierce second-in-command, Starhawk, walked away from war… but war wasn’t finished with them.
A year later, his old crew is cursed—rotting food, shattered weapons, and collapsing tunnels plague their every move. Desperate, they seek Sun Wolf’s arcane aid.
What begins as a favor turns into a fight for survival as Sun Wolf faces a dark, unseen force with the power to unravel not only his men, but magic itself.
To save them, he must master powers he barely understands—or die trying.
Can a mercenary turned mage outwit the darkness hunting him?
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In The Mocking Program, Inspector Angel Cardenas hunts a killer in the futuristic Montezuma Strip—a world of high tech and higher stakes.
The Mocking Program
Sci-Fi
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In The Mocking Program, Inspector Angel Cardenas hunts a killer in the futuristic Montezuma Strip—a world of high tech and higher stakes. From exploding homes to a child marked for death, this gripping sci-fi thriller by Alan Dean Foster blends detective noir with speculative worldbuilding. Fast-paced, intuitive, and razor-sharp.
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In the Montezuma Strip—an ultra-tech corridor stretching across the Namerican Southwest—murder is nothing new. But for Inspector Angel Cardenas, this case is different. The victim has not one, but two clean IDs, and no one seems to know who he really was.
As Cardenas investigates, a suburban house explodes, a high-end security system nearly kills him, and a woman and her daughter vanish into the shadows. Following his instincts, Cardenas goes rogue—chasing leads from the gritty cityscape of Quetzal to the verdant jungles of Costa Rica.
Because twelve-year-old Katla holds a secret worth killing for.
In The Mocking Program, New York Times–bestselling author Alan Dean Foster blends noir detective grit with cutting-edge sci-fi in a fast-paced thriller full of tech, intuition, and deadly secrets.
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From I Am Legend author Richard Matheson comes 7 Steps to Midnight—a paranoid, fast-paced thriller where a government mathematician returns home to find a stranger living his life.
7 Steps to Midnight
Sci-Fi · Thriller · Techno-Thriller
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From I Am Legend author Richard Matheson comes 7 Steps to Midnight—a paranoid, fast-paced thriller where a government mathematician returns home to find a stranger living his life. Hunted, erased, and thrust into a deadly puzzle, he must uncover the truth before it's too late. (4.0 stars on Amazon). Fans of mind-bending suspense—this one’s for you.
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Chris Barton leads a quiet life as a government mathematician—until everything unravels. One day, his car vanishes. When he gets home, a stranger is living in his house… claiming to be him.
Suddenly, Chris is erased.
His identity stolen, his life rewritten, he finds himself hunted by ruthless assassins and thrust into a surreal maze of clues that may—or may not—be real. Every step forward pulls him deeper into a conspiracy so twisted, it defies logic.
Now Chris must solve the riddle that stole his life, before the next bullet finds him. And with every answer comes a new question: who’s really pulling the strings—and why?
From the legendary author of I Am Legend, this is paranoia turned masterwork.
Would you know if your life had been replaced?
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