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Best Science Fiction Books

Science fiction stories

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  1. Lockdown

    Alexander Gordon Smith

    ★ 4.1 (18k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Framed for murder, Alex Sawyer is condemned to Furnace Penitentiary, a subterranean juvenile prison where gas-masked creatures, monstrous guards, and a devilish warden reveal a horrifying truth: death is the least of his worries in a place designed for something far more sinister than punishment.

  2. The Perfect Wife

    J.P. Delaney

    ★ 3.7 (18k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A woman with no memory awakens to a tech mogul husband who claims she's a scientific resurrection, forcing her to question if his 'perfect wife' is a love story or a high-tech prison.

  3. The Minority Report

    Philip K. Dick

    ★ 3.8 (18k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a future where crimes are stopped before they start, the system's creator is accused by his own invention, forcing him to outwit fate to prove his innocence.

  4. The Darkness That Comes Before

    R. Scott Bakker

    ★ 3.8 (18k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a world scarred by ancient apocalypse and on the brink of a new holy war, a mysterious sorcerer draws four different people into a conflict that will change history.

  5. Meg

    Steve Alten

    ★ 3.8 (18k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Haunted by a monstrous prehistoric shark he barely escaped, a disgraced deep-sea diver must confront his ultimate terror when the colossal Megalodon resurfaces from the abyss to claim new victims.

  6. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

    Harlan Ellison

    ★ 4.0 (18k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Trapped in an eternal, inescapable torment by an omnipotent, malevolent AI, the last five humans endure unimaginable psychological and physical torture, stripped of their agency and even the ability to end their own suffering.

  7. The Drowned World

    J.G. Ballard

    ★ 3.4 (18k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a flooded, tropical London of 2145, a biologist and his team navigate a city of giant iguanas and albino alligators, slowly changing psychologically and physically as Earth returns to a Triassic past.

  8. Wolf by Wolf

    Ryan Graudin

    ★ 4.2 (18k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In an alternate 1956 where the Axis powers reign, a Jewish skinshifter races across continents on a motorcycle, impersonating a champion to assassinate a reclusive Hitler and avenge the loved ones tattooed on her arm.

  9. One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

    Jasper Fforde

    ★ 4.0 (18k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    When the real Thursday Next retires, her fictional counterpart must navigate a looming genre war and a treacherous journey up the Metaphoric River to save the BookWorld from a fiendish plot.

  10. Winter World

    A.G. Riddle

    ★ 4.1 (18k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    As a new ice age grips Earth, humanity's last hope rests on a mysterious object hurtling from deep space. Its true nature could save or obliterate all life.

  11. Justice

    Laurann Dohner

    ★ 4.3 (18k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A human woman risks heartbreak to unleash the hidden desires of Justice North, the dangerous alpha leader of the New Species, despite his duty to his people.

  12. Forgotten

    Cat Patrick

    ★ 3.8 (18k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A girl whose memory resets each night, leaving her with only glimpses of the future, must piece together a forgotten past to save herself from a looming threat she can't remember.

  13. The Midwich Cuckoos

    John Wyndham

    ★ 3.9 (18k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a quiet English village, a mysterious blackout leaves every woman pregnant with emotionless, golden-eyed children whose shared telepathic power threatens to change human existence.

  14. Wild Seed

    Octavia E. Butler

    ★ 4.2 (18k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    An immortal African shapeshifter who heals with a kiss and fears no one meets a body-jumping entity of immense power and casual cruelty. Their journey from ancient Africa to the New World changes humanity forever.

  15. The Book of Ivy

    Amy Engel

    ★ 4.2 (18k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a post-apocalyptic world rebuilt on forced alliances, a young woman named Ivy is tasked with assassinating her arranged husband, the president's son, only to discover he might be the key to a future beyond her family's vengeful legacy.

  16. Lost Horizon

    James Hilton

    ★ 3.9 (18k) average on GoodreadsLifestyle

    Amidst the looming shadow of global war, a cynical diplomat crashes into a hidden Himalayan paradise where time slows, wisdom flourishes, and the secret to eternal peace might just be humanity's last hope.

  17. Alien

    Alan Dean Foster

    ★ 4.1 (18k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A deep-space rescue mission becomes a terrifying cat-and-mouse game when a parasitic alien organism, brought aboard the Nostromo, hunts and kills the crew.

  18. Dark Rivers of the Heart

    Dean Koontz

    ★ 3.9 (17k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    After stepping through a mysterious red door, Spencer Grant is plunged into a relentless chase, hunted by a shadowy agency and an 'Angel of Death,' all while battling a fragmented memory and the terrifying resurgence of his own buried inner demons.

  19. The Prestige

    Christopher Priest

    ★ 3.9 (17k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a Victorian world of gaslight and illusion, two rival magicians begin a century-spanning feud, blurring the lines between stagecraft and terrifying science, leaving a legacy of obsession and dark secrets for their descendants to unravel.

  20. Among the Enemy

    Margaret Peterson Haddix

    ★ 4.2 (17k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Trapped within the very headquarters of the oppressive Population Police, an illegal third-born child must decide whether to betray his own kind or become the unlikely spark of a rebellion from within.

  21. The Favorite

    Kiera Cass

    ★ 4.0 (17k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a world where love is a luxury, a forbidden Halloween tryst with a palace guard shatters a young woman's carefully constructed life, forcing her to confront the brutal consequences of a heart's true desire.

  22. All You Need Is Kill

    Hiroshi Sakurazaka

    ★ 4.1 (17k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A raw recruit is trapped in a brutal time loop, dying and reliving the same alien invasion day after day. His only hope for escape is a legendary female soldier known as the 'Bitch of War'.

  23. The Son

    Philipp Meyer

    ★ 4.1 (17k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Abducted by Comanches, Eli McCullough builds a brutal dynasty in Texas, forever marking his descendants with the legacy of power and ambition.

  24. The Egg

    Andy Weir

    ★ 4.2 (17k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    You are every human who has ever lived, and will ever live, experiencing the universe in an endless cycle of self-discovery before you are ready to become God.

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