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Best Science Fiction Books

Science fiction stories

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  1. Immortal in Death

    J.D. Robb

    ★ 4.3 (46k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a future New York, Lieutenant Eve Dallas must choose between loyalty and justice when her best friend is the prime suspect in a supermodel's murder.

  2. The Invasion of the Tearling

    Erika Johansen

    ★ 4.1 (46k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    The ruthless Red Queen's dark magic-bound armies march to reclaim the human tribute Kelsea stopped. The young Tearling monarch must look into the pre-Crossing past to find an ally who might save her kingdom and her soul.

  3. The City of Mirrors

    Justin Cronin

    ★ 4.2 (46k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    After a century of darkness, humanity's new world faces its ultimate test against Zero, the vengeful originator of the virals, whose ancient grief and hatred focus on Amy, the beacon of their future.

  4. Birthmarked

    Caragh M. O'Brien

    ★ 3.9 (46k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a future desert world, a midwife must enter the privileged Enclave to save her parents, forcing her to face the truth behind the babies she gives away.

  5. Iron Gold

    Pierce Brown

    ★ 4.2 (45k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Haunted by a decade of war he inadvertently started, Darrow, the legendary Reaper, must face the broken promise of his revolution as new heroes and villains emerge to shape a dangerous future from the ruins of a broken Society.

  6. Ender in Exile

    Orson Scott Card

    ★ 3.9 (45k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Haunted by his past as humanity's savior, Ender Wiggin embarks on an interstellar quest for redemption, only to find himself entangled in new political intrigue and the target of a vengeful colonist determined to destroy his hard-won peace.

  7. Count Zero

    William Gibson

    ★ 4.0 (45k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a future city glowing with neon, a corporate soldier, brought back to life, must rescue a bio-chipped defector from a dangerous corporate network while battling cybernetic ghosts and non-human enemies.

  8. Forward the Foundation

    Isaac Asimov

    ★ 4.2 (45k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    As the Galactic Empire crumbles, Hari Seldon races against time and political plots to secure the future of psychohistory, a science that promises to guide humanity through the coming dark age, starting with the unlikely legacy of his own granddaughter.

  9. Revelation Space

    Alastair Reynolds

    ★ 4.0 (44k) average on Goodreads

    A reclusive scientist unearths a nine-hundred-thousand-year-old galactic genocide, forcing him into a perilous alliance with a cybernetic starship crew to prevent humanity from suffering the same enigmatic, universe-shattering fate.

  10. Emperor of Thorns

    Mark Lawrence

    ★ 4.3 (44k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    To claim the emperorship by vote, the ruthless King Jorg must outmaneuver a legendary necromancer and harness lost technology, all while battling the intensifying demons of his past and the specter of his father's revenge.

  11. The End of Eternity

    Isaac Asimov

    ★ 4.2 (44k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    An Eternal who alters time risks everything when he rewrites history for a forbidden love.

  12. Into the Still Blue

    Veronica Rossi

    ★ 4.2 (44k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    As Aether storms ravage the world, star-crossed lovers Aria and Perry must unite their fractured people and rescue a gifted boy who holds the key to their survival, before their enemies and the dying planet claim them all.

  13. Pattern Recognition

    William Gibson

    ★ 3.9 (44k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Haunted by her father's presumed death on 9/11, a gifted but emotionally numb market-research consultant is drawn into a global mystery surrounding anonymous, cult-inducing internet videos, leading her from London to Tokyo and Russia in a quest that uncovers secrets about the footage and her own past.

  14. The Future of Us

    Jay Asher

    ★ 3.6 (43k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In 1996, two estranged best friends find a magical AOL CD that shows them their future Facebook profiles, making them confront their current choices and fix their broken friendship.

  15. Many Waters

    Madeleine L'Engle

    ★ 4.0 (43k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Sent through time by a science accident, two ordinary brothers must navigate a prehistoric desert with mythical beasts and biblical figures to reunite a father and son before a great flood.

  16. The Toll

    Neal Shusterman

    ★ 4.3 (43k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a world where immortality is the norm and death is a sacred duty, two scythes fight to reclaim their identities and prevent an unraveling society from succumbing to the ultimate silence.

  17. The Chrysalids

    John Wyndham

    ★ 3.9 (43k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a post-apocalyptic world where genetic purity is paramount, a young man with a secret telepathic ability must fight for survival against a society that deems any deviation an abomination to be purged.

  18. Red Sister

    Mark Lawrence

    ★ 4.2 (42k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a dying world, a young girl with a dark past becomes a deadly assassin in a convent of warrior nuns, only to find her true power may save or destroy everything.

  19. Eve

    Anna Carey

    ★ 3.7 (42k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a post-apocalyptic world where a deadly virus has decimated humanity, a sheltered girl uncovers the truth about her supposed sanctuary and must flee into the dangerous unknown, torn between a forbidden love and her own survival.

  20. Rapture in Death

    J.D. Robb

    ★ 4.3 (41k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a future New York, Lieutenant Eve Dallas finds a plot where a virtual reality game, made for pleasure, is used as a weapon to cause ecstatic suicides, leaving smiling bodies.

  21. The Gender Game

    Bella Forrest

    ★ 3.8 (41k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Divided by a toxic river, two gender-segregated nations are on the brink of war. A young woman, sentenced to death, must infiltrate the enemy kingdom to save her brother, risking forbidden love and her life.

  22. Ark Angel

    Anthony Horowitz

    ★ 4.1 (41k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    After surviving a sniper's attack, teenage spy Alex Rider must infiltrate an eco-terrorist group to prevent them from weaponizing a luxury space hotel and raining molten destruction upon Earth.

  23. Metro 2033

    Dmitry Glukhovsky

    ★ 4.0 (41k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In Moscow's irradiated ruins, Artyom must travel through the monster-filled Metro, humanity's last refuge, to warn Polis of a threat that could end civilization.

  24. Zoo

    James Patterson

    ★ 3.5 (41k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A global wave of intelligent animal attacks threatens humanity. A biologist must convince the world that nature is at war before it is too late.

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