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Best Science Fiction Books

Science fiction stories

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  1. Transformation

    Carol Berg

    ★ 4.0 (7k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A broken, enslaved former demon-warden, resigned to a life without hope, finds his carefully constructed peace shattered when he uncovers a demonic threat within the empire of his arrogant new master, forcing him to reclaim his lost power and purpose.

  2. The Day After Tomorrow

    Allan Folsom

    ★ 4.0 (7k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    A relentless doctor, a haunted detective, and a shadowy cabal collide in a globe-spanning race to unravel a terrifying doomsday plot that blurs the lines between personal vengeance and global annihilation.

  3. Somewhere In Time

    Richard Matheson

    ★ 3.9 (7k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A modern playwright, haunted by a vintage photograph, wills himself into the past to find the Victorian actress he is destined to love, defying time for a romance that transcends centuries.

  4. The Man Who Fell to Earth

    Walter Tevis

    ★ 4.0 (7k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    An alien arrives on Earth to save his dying world, but human vices and loneliness trap him, turning his hope into despair.

  5. Fall of Hades

    Richard Paul Evans

    ★ 4.5 (7k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Michael and the Electroclan plan to steal the Elgen's floating treasury, the Joule, by first rescuing condemned electric youth and recruiting a defecting Elite Guard member, all while facing their most dangerous mission yet.

  6. The Incal

    Alejandro Jodorowsky

    ★ 4.2 (7k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a decadent future, a cynical private eye finds a mystical crystal, sending him on a psychedelic journey across the cosmos to fight galactic tyrants and save existence.

  7. Turnabout

    Margaret Peterson Haddix

    ★ 3.7 (7k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Two centenarian women, young again due to an anti-aging experiment, must escape a shadowy organization and face the terrifying prospect of becoming infants before they vanish.

  8. Time

    Stephen Baxter

    ★ 3.8 (7k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In 2010, Earth faces ecological collapse. Maverick Reid Malenfant gambles with time itself, launching humanity into the cosmos on a desperate, globally contested mission, defying a planet consumed by riots and sabotage.

  9. Clockwork

    Philip Pullman

    ★ 3.9 (7k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    As a writer's dark fairy tale unfolds to cheer a clockmaker's apprentice, its chilling characters, from a nefarious doctor to a prince with a ticking heart, inexorably wind their way into reality, threatening to bring the story's urgent magic to life.

  10. The Vagrant

    Peter Newman

    ★ 3.7 (7k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A silent warrior crosses a demon-ridden wasteland, carrying humanity's last hope to a crumbling city as the world descends into chaos.

  11. The Clockwork Scarab

    Colleen Gleason

    ★ 3.7 (7k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In steampunk Victorian London, Evaline Stoker and Mina Holmes, heirs to legendary family legacies, must overcome their rivalry and a trio of mysterious suitors to unravel the disappearance of society girls, all linked by a strange clockwork scarab before they become the next victims.

  12. Seafire

    Natalie C. Parker

    ★ 3.9 (7k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Haunted by a warlord's massacre, a female pirate captain must decide if a defecting enemy soldier is the key to vengeance or the destruction of her crew.

  13. Against the Day

    Thomas Pynchon

    ★ 4.1 (6k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction

    Pynchon's sweeping novel follows mathematicians, spies, and revolutionaries across the late 19th and early 20th centuries, from anarchist bombings in Colorado to early film sets, as they pursue theoretical physics and ancient conspiracies while the world moves toward war.

  14. World Made by Hand

    James Howard Kunstler

    ★ 3.7 (6k) average on Goodreads

    In a post-collapse America where gasoline is a myth and the outside world a rumor, the residents of Union Grove grapple with horse-drawn plows, local feuds, and the haunting echo of a forgotten civilization as they forge a new, intensely local existence.

  15. The Black Tides of Heaven

    J.Y. Yang

    ★ 3.8 (6k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a world where gender is chosen and power comes from mystical 'tensors' or revolutionary 'machinists,' a twin monk who sees fate's strings must choose between loyalty to his prophetic sister and joining a rebellion against their mother's oppressive rule.

  16. The Light of Other Days

    Arthur C. Clarke

    ★ 4.0 (6k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a world where quantum entanglement makes privacy impossible by letting everyone see through walls and across the globe, humanity deals with the sudden loss of secrets, only to find this same technology can rewind time, showing every past mistake and success.

  17. The Veldt

    Ray Bradbury

    ★ 4.2 (6k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a house where every whim is satisfied by intelligent machines, two children's innocent fascination with an African veldt simulation morphs into a chilling, predatory reality that blurs the line between play and primal instinct.

  18. The Fifth Sacred Thing

    Starhawk

    ★ 4.2 (6k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a post-apocalyptic California, a peaceful, nature-revering San Francisco faces an existential threat from the militant, technocratic Hand of the new order, forcing a young woman to choose between ancient magic and modern warfare to protect her city's soul.

  19. Kallocain

    Karin Boye

    ★ 3.8 (6k) average on Goodreads

    In a totalitarian World State where every thought is policed, a scientist invents a truth serum, only to discover the power of the human mind to resist total control.

  20. Gideon the Cutpurse

    Linda Buckley-Archer

    ★ 3.7 (6k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    When two time-traveling 21st-century children literally drop into 18th-century London, a quick-witted cutpurse becomes their only hope against a menacing villain who steals their ride home and plunges them into a thrilling chase through history.

  21. Death Sentence

    Alexander Gordon Smith

    ★ 4.3 (6k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Imprisoned in the inescapable Furnace, Alex's second breakout attempt plunges him into a sinister transformation, as the warden's dark nectar courses through his veins, twisting him into the very monster he dreads and making the prison not just a place, but a part of him.

  22. Horizon

    Alyson Noel

    ★ 4.0 (6k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    As the last Soul Seeker, Daire must choose between embracing her destiny to lead an epic battle against the Richters and sacrificing her fated love, Dace, whose own blood-bound darkness threatens to consume them both and end the world.

  23. The Scorpion Rules

    Erin Bow

    ★ 3.4 (6k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a world where peace relies on sacrificing royal children, a young duchess, held hostage and prepared for death, finds her future changed by a defiant boy who challenges the brutal system.

  24. Into the Storm

    Taylor Anderson

    ★ 4.0 (6k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    When a WWII destroyer sails into an inexplicable squall, its crew finds themselves stranded in a primeval alternate world where intelligent dinosaurs and giant reptiles wage war, forcing them to choose sides in a conflict that could reshape history itself.

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