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Best Science Fiction Books

Science fiction stories

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  1. Smiley

    Laurann Dohner

    ★ 4.3 (10k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Drugged and on the run from bigots, a human woman and a genetically engineered New Species male must rely on instinct and trust to survive a forced breeding scenario, forging a bond that defies prejudice and danger.

  2. An Unkindness of Ghosts

    Rivers Solomon

    ★ 4.0 (10k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    On a segregated spaceship that mirrors the antebellum South, an autistic sharecropper uncovers a conspiracy connecting her mother's suicide to the sovereign's death, sparking a fight for freedom and a mythical promised land.

  3. The Song Rising

    Samantha Shannon

    ★ 4.2 (10k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    As London's new Underqueen, Paige Mahoney must unite a fractured clairvoyant underworld against a deadly new technology that threatens to extinguish all of their kind, even as past betrayals and vengeful enemies close in.

  4. The Drowned Cities

    Paolo Bacigalupi

    ★ 3.9 (10k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a future America scarred by war and floods, a young refugee must choose between saving her friend from soldiers or finding her own freedom, all while protecting a hunted war beast.

  5. Piranesi

    Susanna Clarke

    ★ 4.4 (10k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In a vast house of classical statues and surging tides, Piranesi's calm life with 'The Other' falls apart as forgotten memories hint at a dark truth beyond his labyrinthine world.

  6. The Speed of Dark

    Elizabeth Moon

    ★ 4.0 (10k) average on GoodreadsPsychology

    In a future where 'normal' is engineered, an autistic man must decide if a cure for his condition is a path to belonging or a betrayal of his unique self, his perceptions, and the love he cherishes.

  7. The Machine Stops

    E.M. Forster

    ★ 4.1 (10k) average on Goodreads

    In a future where humanity lives isolated beneath the earth, dependent on a Machine for every need, a mother and son face the terrifying consequences when the Machine begins to fail.

  8. Heir Apparent

    Vivian Vande Velde

    ★ 4.1 (10k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Trapped in a deadly virtual reality game where every wrong move means real-life death, Giannine must outsmart riddles, monsters, and her own blunders to claim the throne and escape before her next demise becomes permanent.

  9. Robot Dreams

    Isaac Asimov

    ★ 4.2 (10k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Asimov's collection tracks the intertwined futures of people and machines over forty years of science fiction, from early AI to humanity's future in space.

  10. Defy the Stars

    Claudia Gray

    ★ 4.0 (10k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A soldier from a dying colony and a sentient mech warrior find unexpected love and a choice that could save or destroy their worlds.

  11. Time and Time Again

    Ben Elton

    ★ 4.0 (10k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Armed with knowledge from the future, a lone adventurer travels back to 1914 with a desperate plan to stop World War I by altering the path of a single, fateful bullet.

  12. The Intuitionist

    Colson Whitehead

    ★ 3.7 (10k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In an alternate-reality metropolis, the city's first black female elevator inspector, a master of the mystical Intuitionist method, must clear her name after a catastrophic crash. She uncovers a conspiracy that challenges her perception of truth, technology, and self.

  13. Cyteen

    C.J. Cherryh

    ★ 4.0 (10k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    On the colonized moon of Cyteen, a brilliant young scientist uncovers a deadly conspiracy involving murder and political intrigue, all while navigating the unsettling implications of her own genetic duplication and the treacherous currents of power within the Union-Alliance.

  14. The Forgetting

    Nicole Maggi

    ★ 4.0 (10k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A heart transplant saves Georgie's life but gives her fragmented memories and a dark mystery from her donor's last days, making her uncover a street conspiracy before her own identity is lost.

  15. The House on the Strand

    Daphne du Maurier

    ★ 3.8 (10k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A man in Cornwall finds a drug that sends his mind back to a 14th-century love affair, making him abandon his present for a past he can only watch.

  16. Everfound

    Neal Shusterman

    ★ 4.3 (10k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Mary's ghost train carries her glass coffin west, and the fate of Everlost and Earth hangs in the balance as skinjackers, fur-jackers, and an ancient Mayan god clash in a battle that will redefine life and death.

  17. The Love That Split the World

    Emily Henry

    ★ 3.6 (10k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A Kentucky girl's last summer before college becomes a race against time to save the boy she just met from a disappearing world, forcing her to choose between the life she knows and a love that defies reality.

  18. Eve of Man

    Giovanna Fletcher

    ★ 4.1 (10k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    The first girl born in fifty years must choose between her predetermined destiny to repopulate humanity and a forbidden love that threatens to expose a carefully constructed future.

  19. Zero K

    Don DeLillo

    ★ 3.2 (10k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    In a secret compound where death is a choice and immortality a promise, a son confronts his billionaire father's pursuit of a technologically-resurrected future, making him face the beauty and terror of life in the present.

  20. The Silver Eyes

    Scott Cawthon

    ★ 4.2 (9k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Ten years after the gruesome murders at her father's pizzeria, Charlotte and her friends return to the abandoned Freddy Fazbear's, only to discover the beloved animatronics harbor a sinister sentience and a hunger for revenge.

  21. The Last Days

    Scott Westerfeld

    ★ 3.5 (9k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a New York City facing an angelic (or demonic) apocalypse, five teenage musicians—a vampire, a drummer who sees the future, and their bandmates—play music that could save the world, or end it.

  22. The Arm of the Starfish

    Madeleine L'Engle

    ★ 3.9 (9k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A marine biology student becomes caught in a dangerous international plot when a chance airport meeting pulls him into a fight between shadowy groups seeking a world-changing secret.

  23. Empire of the Ants

    Bernard Werber

    ★ 4.1 (9k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A family's forbidden trip into a cellar starts a war with a smart ant civilization, making both species face their shared future and what survival means.

  24. Transition

    Iain M. Banks

    ★ 3.9 (9k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a fractured world, an immortal assassin, a greedy financier, and a time-traveling torturer navigate the schemes of the powerful Concern, while rebels and a feigning patient plot its downfall.

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