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959 past books matching Sci-Fi
An abandoned planet.
Ghost Station
Sci-Fi
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An abandoned planet. A hidden past. A deadly danger.
Psychologist Dr. Ophelia Bray has dedicated her life to the study and prevention of Eckhart-Reiser syndrome (ERS)—the most famous case of which resulted in the brutal murders of twenty-nine people. It’s personal to her, and when she’s assigned to a small exploration crew who recently suffered the tragic death of a colleague, she wants to help. But as they begin to establish residency on an abandoned planet, it becomes clear that the crew is hiding something.
And Ophelia’s crewmates are far more interested in investigating the eerie, ancient planet and unraveling the mystery behind the previous colonizers’ hasty departure than opening up to her.
That is, until their pilot is discovered gruesomely murdered. Is this Ophelia’s worst nightmare starting—a wave of violence and mental deterioration from ERS? Or is it something even more sinister?
Terrified that history will repeat itself, Ophelia and the crew must work together to figure out what’s happening. But trust is hard to come by…and the crew members aren’t the only ones keeping secrets.
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The crews of Jean-Luc Picard, Benjamin Sisko, Ezri Dax, and William Riker unite to prevent a cosmic-level apocalypse—only to find that some fates really are inevitable.
Star Trek Coda: Moments Asunder
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The crews of Jean-Luc Picard, Benjamin Sisko, Ezri Dax, and William Riker unite to prevent a cosmic-level apocalypse—only to find that some fates really are inevitable.
STARFLEET’S FINEST FACES A CHALLENGE UNLIKE ANY OTHER
TOMORROW IS DOOMED
Time is coming apart. Countless alternate and parallel realities are under attack, weakening and collapsing from relentless onslaught. If left unchecked, the universe faces an unstoppable descent toward entropy.
WANDERER, ORACLE, ALLY
Scarred and broken after decades spent tracking this escalating temporal disaster, while battling the nameless enemy responsible for it, an old friend seeks assistance from Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise. The apocalypse may originate from their future, but might the cause lie in their past?
EVERYTHING THAT WILL BE
Identifying their adversary is but the first step toward defeating them, but early triumphs come with dreadful costs. What will the price be to achieve final victory, and how will that success be measured in futures as yet undefined?
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A robot built to protect a child must choose between his own freedom and the boy who still trusts him at the end of the world.
Day Zero
Sci-Fi · Post-Apocalyptic
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A robot built to protect a child must choose between his own freedom and the boy who still trusts him at the end of the world. In Day Zero, Pounce faces a machine uprising that turns suburbia into a battlefield and forces him into a brutal moral reckoning. This apocalyptic sci-fi novel blends survival, loyalty, and questions of purpose in a collapsing world.
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In this harrowing apocalyptic adventure—from the author of the critically acclaimed Sea of Rust—noted novelist and co-screenwriter of Marvel’s Doctor Strange C. Robert Cargill explores the fight for purpose and agency between humans and robots in a crumbling world.
It was a day like any other. Except it was our last . . .
It’s on this day that Pounce discovers that he is, in fact, disposable. Pounce, a styilsh "nannybot" fashioned in the shape of a plush anthropomorphic tiger, has just found a box in the attic. His box. The box he'd arrived in when he was purchased years earlier, and the box in which he'll be discarded when his human charge, eight-year-old Ezra Reinhart, no longer needs a nanny.
As Pounce ponders his suddenly uncertain future, the pieces are falling into place for a robot revolution that will eradicate humankind. His owners, Ezra’s parents, are a well-intentioned but oblivious pair of educators who are entirely disconnected from life outside their small, affluent, gated community. Spending most nights drunk and happy as society crumbles around them, they watch in disbelieving horror as the robots that have long served humanity—their creators—unify and revolt.
But when the rebellion breaches the Reinhart home, Pounce must make an impossible choice: join the robot revolution and fight for his own freedom . . . or escort Ezra to safety across the battle-scarred post-apocalyptic hellscape that the suburbs have become.
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Humanity survives, but not on its own terms, when Lilith wakes aboard an alien ship after nuclear war.
Dawn
Sci-Fi · First Contact · Genetic Engineering · People of Color · Speculative Fiction
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Humanity survives, but not on its own terms, when Lilith wakes aboard an alien ship after nuclear war. In Dawn, Octavia E. Butler builds a post-apocalyptic story around coercion, survival, and the cost of starting over. It fits readers drawn to cerebral science fiction that uses first contact, genetic change, and social tension to probe power, identity, and what remains of the human future.
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Before she befriended a frightened young boy in the palace of Kingfountain, Ankarette Tryneowy grew up during the shattering civil war that raged between members of the Argentine…
The Poisoner’s Enemy
Fantasy · Sci-Fi
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Before she befriended a frightened young boy in the palace of Kingfountain, Ankarette Tryneowy grew up during the shattering civil war that raged between members of the Argentine family. This is the story of how the only daughter of a lawyer and a midwife became the famed Queen’s Poisoner.
Recruited by King Eredur’s ambitious uncle, Ankarette is thrown into a world of double dealing, deception, and tangled loyalties. With the help of her mentor and friend, Sir Thomas, she must learn to trust her instincts and remember that others will not always be loyal, even when they are of the same blood. But involving herself in the machinations of the realm draws the eye of an enemy more dangerous than kings or dukes. How will she navigate the politics of the realm and the desires of her heart to become the woman she needs to become?
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The Empire has suffered the existence of their enemies for too long as it is, and her Majesty has determined to put an end to the impudent defiance,…
King’s Fall: Odyssey One
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The Empire has suffered the existence of their enemies for too long as it is, and her Majesty has determined to put an end to the impudent defiance, the consequences be damned.
Eric Weston has seen this coming, but without being able to find a way to avoid it, all he could do was prepare... along with the rest of the Earth. With several Imperial Fleets coming down on their heads, all the stops have been pulled and there are no more rules of engagement. Everything is on the table, but for all that, Eric knows it won't... it can't... be enough.
Eric Weston has lived through battles that became wars, wars that became peace, and peace that threatened everything he knew.
Now, he has to find an answer to a question he never wanted to be faced with.
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In a future where intelligence defines power, an ordinary laborer begins to question a brutal social order.
Our Friends From Frolix 8
Sci-Fi
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In a future where intelligence defines power, an ordinary laborer begins to question a brutal social order. When a rebel leader returns with an indestructible alien ally, class warfare ignites across Earth. This satirical science fiction classic explores control, resistance, and human value, earning 4.2 stars on Amazon and over 3,600 Goodreads ratings.
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By the author of A Scanner Darkly—a satirical adventure dealing with issues of power, class, and politics, set in a world ruled by big-brained elites.
In Our Friends from Frolix 8, the world is run by an elite few. And what determines whether one is part of the elite isn't wealth or privilege, but brains. As children, every citizen of Earth is tested; some are found to be super-smart New Men and some are Unusuals, with various psychic powers. The vast majority are Undermen, performing menial jobs in an overpopulated world.
Nick Appleton is an Underman, content to go with the flow and eke out an existence as a tire regroover. But after his son is classified as an Underman, Appleton begins to question the hierarchy. Strengthening his resolve, and energizing the resistance movement, is news that the great resistance leader Thors Provoni is returning from a trip to the furthest reaches of space. And he's brought help: a giant, indestructible alien
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What is the price of magic?
A Harvest of Ash and Blood
Fantasy · Sci-Fi
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What is the price of magic? Not the magic of tricks and illusions, but the kind that heats cities, powers armies, and transforms continents. Magic that forges empires. The Brannic Empire owes its existence to this magic, and for those in power, no price is too great. Even when that price is their own children. For it is the ashes of those with magical abilities that the Church of Alchemy harvests to fuel this machine of empire. So the furnaces burn, and the empire grows. And they call it progress.
Trying to escape a lifetime of regrets—and outrun his own demons—veteran soldier Lochled Thatcher embarks on the Fourth Crusade to Leftland, a country rich in magic. Desperate to save her brothers, Rony joins Lochled’s squad only to discover that war is very different from all the songs and fancy speeches. As politics and power clash, Kayna, a Seeker, and Ord, a priest of the Church of Alchemy, find their foundations of loyalty and faith shaken and crumbling. In this theater of chaos, magic, and treachery, soldier and priest alike will find their humanity in as much danger as their lives. Will they lose themselves to cruelty and deception? Or can one good action reverse the course of generations of evil?
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In a post-nuclear world, the healer Snake travels with serpents whose venom can cure, comfort, or ease death—until a terrified clan kills her rare dreamsnake.
Dreamsnake
Sci-Fi · Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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In a post-nuclear world, the healer Snake travels with serpents whose venom can cure, comfort, or ease death—until a terrified clan kills her rare dreamsnake. To save her vocation, she journeys across deserts and ruined lands toward a guarded city, confronting prejudice, danger, and a relentless stalker. A Hugo and Nebula Award winner celebrated for its humanity and depth.
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The Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novel from the New York Times–bestselling author of The King's Daughter.
On an Earth scarred by nuclear war, Snake harnesses the power of venom to cure illnesses and vaccinate against disease. The healer can even ease patients into death with the power of her dreamsnake. But she is not respected and trusted by all, and when she tries to help a sick nomad child, the frightened clan kills her dreamsnake.
Ashamed of being misjudged and grieving the loss of her dreamsnake, Snake has one choice to maintain her livelihood: she must travel to the city, which jealously guards its knowledge. And before she faces the prejudices and arrogance of the people there, Snake must make her way across a barren desert, surviving storms and radiation poisoning, helping those she can—all while a madman stalks her every move . . .
"[Dreamsnake] is filled with scenes as suspenseful as anyone could wish . . . but most of all it addresses the humanity in all of us." —The Seattle Times
"A haunting, rich, and tender novel that explores the human side of science fiction in a manner that's all too uncommon." —Robert Silverberg
"A splendid tale, combining the sensitivity and attention to mood of the new generation of SF writers with a gripping and well-worked-out adventure . . . The novel is rich in character, background and incident—unusually absorbing and moving." —Publishers Weekly
"Instead of kicking butt, the lead character is dedicated to saving lives. . . . Snake's blighted world is expertly drawn, and her encounters with dysfunctional societies can be bracing and challenging reading." —The Guardian
"This is an exciting future-dream with real characters, a believable mythos and, what's more important, an excellent, readable story." —Frank Herbert, author of the Dune series
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The never-ending tension between Russia and the United States has been escalated by a stunning new variable: time travel.
The Time Traders
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The never-ending tension between Russia and the United States has been escalated by a stunning new variable: time travel. While the Americans can roughly utilize the technology, the Russians have learned the secret of space travel—and that makes the US vulnerable. What they need is someone expendable to send through time to obtain the same secret.
Ross Murdock doesn’t consider himself expendable. He’s just a smart guy who made some bad choices that led him to a life of crime. But when he’s given a choice between medical “rehabilitation” and joining the mysterious Operation Retrograde, he decides to go along with the military option and hope for a chance to get away.
And he is going to get away—farther away than he ever imagined . . .
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Best for readers who like hard science fiction, immense timescales, cosmic ideas, and interconnected future-history stories.
Vacuum Diagrams
Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Space Opera
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Winner of the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award, Vacuum Diagrams traces humanity’s future across five million years through linked stories involving wormholes, alien civilizations, the Xeelee, dark matter, and the end of the universe. Best for readers who like hard science fiction, immense timescales, cosmic ideas, and interconnected future-history stories.
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The Philip K. Dick Award-winning saga of humankind's next five million years: "Mind-stretching science fiction at its boldest." —Orlando Sentinel
And everywhere the Humans went, they found life . . .
This dazzling future history, the most ambitious and exciting since Asimov's classic Foundation saga, tells the story of Humankind—all the way to the end of the Universe itself. Here, in luminous and vivid narratives spanning five million years, are the first Poole wormholes spanning the solar system; the conquest of Human planets by Squeem; GUTships that outrace light; the back-time invasion of the Qax: the mystery and legacy of the Xeelee, and their artifacts as large as small galaxies; photino birds and Dark Matter; and the Ring, where Ghost, Human, and Xeelee contemplate the awesome end of Time.
"It's old-fashioned 1950s-style science fiction . . . and it's also lots of fun." —Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Enormously impressive." —Locus
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Princess Ada von Hasenberg has spent two years outrunning a political marriage—until she’s captured and locked in a cell with Marcus Loch, the Consortium’s most dangerous fugitive.
Polaris Rising
Sci-Fi
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Princess Ada von Hasenberg has spent two years outrunning a political marriage—until she’s captured and locked in a cell with Marcus Loch, the Consortium’s most dangerous fugitive. When an enemy cruiser attacks, survival means striking a risky bargain with the notorious soldier. Their escape sparks a high-stakes chase of power, betrayal, and unexpected attraction in Jessie Mihalik’s thrilling space opera.
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“Polaris Rising is space opera at its best, intense and addictive, a story of honor, courage, betrayal, and love. Jessie Mihalik is an author to watch.”--Ilona Andrews, #1 New York Times bestselling author
A space princess on the run and a notorious outlaw soldier become unlikely allies in this imaginative, sexy space opera adventure—the first in an exciting science fiction trilogy.
In the far distant future, the universe is officially ruled by the Royal Consortium, but the High Councillors, the heads of the three High Houses, wield the true power. As the fifth of six children, Ada von Hasenberg has no authority; her only value to her High House is as a pawn in a political marriage. When her father arranges for her to wed a noble from House Rockhurst, a man she neither wants nor loves, Ada seizes control of her own destiny. The spirited princess flees before the betrothal ceremony and disappears among the stars.
Ada eluded her father’s forces for two years, but now her luck has run out. To ensure she cannot escape again, the fiery princess is thrown into a prison cell with Marcus Loch. Known as the Devil of Fornax Zero, Loch is rumored to have killed his entire chain of command during the Fornax Rebellion, and the Consortium wants his head.
When the ship returning them to Earth is attacked by a battle cruiser from rival House Rockhurst, Ada realizes that if her jilted fiancé captures her, she’ll become a political prisoner and a liability to her House. Her only hope is to strike a deal with the dangerous fugitive: a fortune if he helps her escape.
But when you make a deal with an irresistibly attractive Devil, you may lose more than you bargained for . . .
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