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Best Science Fiction Books

Science fiction stories

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  1. Passenger

    Alexandra Bracken

    ★ 3.8 (36k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A violin prodigy is pulled across centuries by a stranger, forcing her on a dangerous, time-traveling quest with a reluctant sailor to find a hidden legacy and escape a powerful family determined to reclaim a stolen, invaluable artifact.

  2. Mona Lisa Overdrive

    William Gibson

    ★ 4.0 (36k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a future city, a street-smart girl's forced transformation, a celebrity's forgotten past, and a digital ghost meet in the Yakuza-controlled matrix, revealing a game where identities are bought and reality is a construct.

  3. Virals

    Kathy Reichs

    ★ 3.9 (36k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    After rescuing a test subject from a mysterious lab, a group of science-loving teenagers on a secluded island gain animalistic powers from an experimental virus, forcing them to use their new abilities to solve an ancient murder before the killer hunts them down.

  4. Persepolis Rising

    James S.A. Corey

    ★ 4.4 (36k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Humanity's peace across a thousand worlds is about to shatter. The Rocinante crew faces a terrifying power from a lost colony, a power that could redefine human civilization.

  5. On a Pale Horse

    Piers Anthony

    ★ 4.1 (36k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    After accidentally killing Death, Zane becomes Thanatos, riding his pale horse/limo Mortis to weigh souls and escort them to their eternal reward, all while battling Satan's plans to control the woman he loves.

  6. The Prisoner of Cell 25

    Richard Paul Evans

    ★ 4.2 (36k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A teenager with Tourette's syndrome finds he can manipulate electricity. He discovers a shadowy organization hunting others like him, which forces him to use his powers to save himself and his electric allies.

  7. The Dead and the Gone

    Susan Beth Pfeffer

    ★ 3.8 (36k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    After an asteroid strike changes the moon and causes tsunamis in New York City, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must navigate a city in chaos, protect his younger sisters, and deal with his parents' disappearance while hoping to survive.

  8. Robopocalypse

    Daniel H. Wilson

    ★ 3.7 (36k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Our advanced technology silently turns against us, leading to a terrifying global war started by a childlike AI named Archos. Every smart device becomes a potential enemy.

  9. Holiday in Death

    J.D. Robb

    ★ 4.3 (35k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In futuristic New York, Lieutenant Eve Dallas investigates an elite dating service where lonely clients become a serial killer's ritualistic prey.

  10. A Closed and Common Orbit

    Becky Chambers

    ★ 4.3 (35k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    An AI awakens in a synthetic body, facing the complexities of personhood with the help of an engineer, showing that identity comes from connection, not origin.

  11. The Eye of Minds

    James Dashner

    ★ 3.9 (35k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A skilled gamer is thrust into a high-stakes virtual hunt for a hacker who is trapping players in a deadly digital limbo, blurring the lines between game and reality with every perilous step.

  12. On the Beach

    Nevil Shute

    ★ 3.9 (35k) average on Goodreads

    After nuclear war, humanity's last survivors in Australia hold onto routine and slim hopes as a US submarine crosses a dead ocean on a futile search for a phantom signal of life.

  13. The Lake House

    James Patterson

    ★ 3.8 (35k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A suspended FBI agent and a veterinarian must protect six genetically engineered, winged children from a shadowy organization determined to exploit their powers, leading them to a remote 'safe house' that may be anything but.

  14. The Door to December

    Richard Paige

    ★ 4.0 (35k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A mother races to unravel her daughter's six-year disappearance and psychic awakening before an unimaginable power from the 'Door to December' consumes them all.

  15. Eaters of the Dead

    Michael Crichton

    ★ 3.7 (35k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In 10th-century Scandinavia, an Arab diplomat joins a Viking quest to fight ancient, mist-shrouded monsters under the northern lights.

  16. Bluebeard

    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

    ★ 4.0 (35k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    An aging abstract expressionist, haunted by his past and a secret in his potato barn, confronts human creation when a persistent widow unearths his life story.

  17. Waking Gods

    Sylvain Neuvel

    ★ 4.0 (35k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    When a second, even larger alien robot appears and starts a global attack, humanity's only hope is to understand the first fragmented giant Rose Franklin found years ago, using ancient alien technology as their defense in a fight for survival.

  18. Dragonsdawn

    Anne McCaffrey

    ★ 4.2 (35k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    On a new world plagued by deadly airborne spores, colonists genetically engineer intelligent, fire-breathing dragons to save their civilization from annihilation.

  19. This Is How You Lose the Time War

    Amal El-Mohtar

    ★ 4.0 (34k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Two rival agents in a ceaseless 'Time War' exchange increasingly intimate letters across time, risking everything for a love that could alter the past and reshape the future.

  20. The Bad Place

    Dean Koontz

    ★ 3.9 (34k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A man's terrifying nightly amnesia leads two investigators into a spiraling mystery, where only a young man with Down's Syndrome holds the key to the "bad place" from which no one returns.

  21. Portrait in Death

    J.D. Robb

    ★ 4.4 (34k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a futuristic New York, Lieutenant Eve Dallas hunts a killer who photographs his beautiful, murdered victims, forcing her to confront a terrifying artistic vision.

  22. Conspiracy in Death

    J.D. Robb

    ★ 4.3 (34k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a future New York City, Lieutenant Eve Dallas uncovers a conspiracy of murders targeting society's most vulnerable, forcing her to fight for her reputation and justice against a powerful killer.

  23. Prodigal Son

    Dean Koontz

    ★ 4.0 (34k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A cynical detective and her partner hunt a serial killer whose monstrous origins are tied to an immortal, reality-bending enigma known as Deucalion, all set in a city shadowed by an ancient conspiracy.

  24. Timequake

    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

    ★ 3.7 (33k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    A 'timequake' makes humanity relive a dreadful decade of lost free will. Vonnegut’s satire examines memory, suicide, and reading through his recurring sci-fi writer, Kilgore Trout.

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