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Best Science Fiction Books

Science fiction stories

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  1. Dune Messiah

    Frank Herbert

    ★ 3.9 (134k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Haunted by visions and caught in the fanaticism he inspired, Emperor Paul Muad'Dib navigates political assassinations and personal betrayals, trying to avoid a future where his power crumbles and his beloved Chani faces a terrible fate.

  2. Song of Susannah

    Stephen King

    ★ 4.0 (134k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Susannah, possessed by a demon, races to give birth to Roland's destined enemy in 1999 New York, while the group is scattered across dimensions to fight gangsters, save a magical rose, and meet their own creator: Stephen King.

  3. Rendezvous with Rama

    Arthur C. Clarke

    ★ 4.1 (134k) average on Goodreads

    Humanity's first contact with alien intelligence happens not through a greeting, but by exploring the silent, huge, and mysterious interior of an abandoned interstellar ark moving through our solar system.

  4. The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

    Stuart Turton

    ★ 3.9 (132k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    Trapped in an aristocratic manor, a man must relive the same day in a different body, each a potential suspect, to unmask Evelyn Hardcastle's killer before the cycle, and his memory, is lost forever.

  5. Anthem

    Ayn Rand

    ★ 3.6 (131k) average on GoodreadsPolitics

    In a collectivist dystopia that has erased individuality, one man's forbidden discovery of self and electricity sparks a rebellion against the tyranny of 'we'.

  6. Childhood's End

    Arthur C. Clarke

    ★ 4.1 (130k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Humanity's golden age of peace and prosperity under the benevolent, yet enigmatic, Overlords slowly reveals itself to be a cosmic nursery, preparing mankind for an unimaginable, terrifying metamorphosis into a collective consciousness that transcends individual existence.

  7. The Opal Deception

    Eoin Colfer

    ★ 4.0 (128k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A vengeful pixie, newly awake from a coma, plans to cause chaos in the fairy world and target a memory-wiped Artemis Fowl, who must remember his past to stop a war between species.

  8. The Institute

    Stephen King

    ★ 4.2 (127k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a secret facility, children with psychic powers are harvested, forcing a defiant boy to escape his captors before his unique ability is weaponized.

  9. The Long Walk

    Richard Bachman

    ★ 4.1 (127k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    In a future dystopia, one hundred teenage boys begin a march where the only prize for survival is life, and the cost of failure is death.

  10. Dragonflight

    Anne McCaffrey

    ★ 4.1 (126k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A telepathically linked dragon queen and her young, underestimated rider must awaken old powers and unite a broken world against a deadly, world-devouring alien threat.

  11. King's Cage

    Victoria Aveyard

    ★ 4.0 (126k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Imprisoned and stripped of her lightning, Mare Barrow navigates the betrayals of a king she once loved, while the rebellion she started burns stronger without her, threatening to consume a kingdom already at war.

  12. The Tommyknockers

    Stephen King

    ★ 3.5 (125k) average on GoodreadsThriller

    An ancient spaceship in rural Maine slowly transforms a town's residents into super-powered, malevolent beings, twisting their minds and bodies.

  13. Attack on Titan, Vol. 1

    Hajime Isayama

    ★ 4.4 (124k) average on GoodreadsYoung Adult

    Humanity lives behind huge walls, safe from man-eating giants. When the giants break through, a young boy's desire for freedom starts a bloody fight for survival.

  14. The Light Fantastic

    Terry Pratchett

    ★ 4.0 (124k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    As a large red star moves towards Discworld, the only hope rests with the inept wizard Rincewind, who must save a world he once fell off.

  15. The Eternity Code

    Eoin Colfer

    ★ 4.0 (123k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Thirteen-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl’s latest brilliant plan involves showing a dangerous, stolen fairy supercomputer to a ruthless American businessman, confident that with his bodyguard Butler, nothing could go wrong.

  16. The Mysterious Benedict Society

    Trenton Lee Stewart

    ★ 4.2 (123k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Four uniquely gifted orphans infiltrate a mind-bending academy run by a nefarious villain, relying on their individual talents and burgeoning friendship to thwart a plot that threatens to brainwash the world.

  17. The Power of Six

    Pittacus Lore

    ★ 4.2 (123k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    As the last six alien Garde scatter across Earth, Number Seven, Marina, develops her powers and hopes John Smith, Number Four, and a mysterious raven-haired girl will unite them to fight the Mogadorian hunters before humanity's adopted home becomes their final grave.

  18. Morning Star

    Pierce Brown

    ★ 4.5 (122k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In the final book, a changed Red miner starts a brutal, galaxy-wide revolution against the tyrannical Golds, making him fight former friends and inspiring the oppressed to break free and create a new future.

  19. Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

    Douglas Adams

    ★ 4.0 (121k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    A disarmingly holistic detective, a couch, and an ancient ghost's time-traveling suicide attempt collide in a hilariously convoluted plot to save humanity from its own past.

  20. Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 1

    Hiromu Arakawa

    ★ 4.5 (121k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    Alchemy comes at a brutal cost in this story of two brothers. One is a living suit of armor, the other an alchemist with prosthetic limbs. They hunt for a mythical stone to restore their bodies, but they uncover a conspiracy more dangerous than their own forbidden experiments.

  21. The Left Hand Of Darkness

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    ★ 4.1 (120k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    On a frozen world where people have a single, fluid gender, an envoy from another planet challenges their isolation and customs, making them confront identity, love, and belonging.

  22. The Eyre Affair

    Jasper Fforde

    ★ 3.9 (119k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In an alternate 1985 where literary detectives can jump into novels, Special Operative Thursday Next must chase a master criminal through the pages of Jane Eyre to prevent the beloved character's murder and preserve literary history amidst a world obsessed with dodo cloning, time travel, and Shakespearean conspiracies.

  23. A Wind in the Door

    Madeleine L'Engle

    ★ 4.0 (119k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    When her brilliant younger brother, Charles Wallace, is threatened by a cosmic illness that mirrors the extinguishing of stars, Meg Murry must journey with a fiery, winged cherubim and her friend Calvin into the heart of creation to confront the Echthroi, beings of pure hate, and restore the universe's harmonious song.

  24. I Am Legend and Other Stories

    Richard Matheson

    ★ 4.0 (119k) average on GoodreadsFantasy

    In a world overrun by the living dead, the last human survivor hunts vampires by day and barricades himself against their siege by night, questioning who the true monster has become.

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