Best Science Fiction Books
Category96 of 570 books165 recommendations totalScience fiction recommended most by technologists, futurists and novelists — artificial intelligence, space exploration and dystopias. Plus the space opera and hard SF that aged into documentaries.
A Novel
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Ender Saga, Book 1
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A Novel
A National Book Award FinalistA PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end. Twenty...

For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in th...
A modern classic, Einstein?s Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to ...
Culture, Book 1
The first book in Iain M. Banks's seminal science fiction series, The Culture. Consider Phlebas introduces readers to the utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war, morality, and the limitless bounds of mankind's imagination.The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, p...

A hightech thriller for the wireless age that explores the unthinkable consequences of a computer program running without human control?a daemon?designed to dismantle society and bring about a new world orderTechnology, controls almost everything in our modernday world, from remote entry on our cars to access to our homes, from the flight controls...

A Novel (The Great Cities Trilogy (1))
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A Novel
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A Novel
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Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, guntoting misanthrope named Bangley. But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep...

A Novel
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Book One of the Centenal Cycle (The Centenal Cycle (1))
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A Novel
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50th Anniversary Edition (Ace Science Fiction)
50th Anniversary Edition, with a new introduction by David Mitchell and a new afterword by Charlie Jane AndersUrsula K. Le Guin_x0092_s groundbreaking work of science fiction_x0097_winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards.A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants_x0092_ gender is fluid. His ...

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In a barbarous and fallen world, the monks of the Order of Leibowitz inherit the sacred relics and spend their lives copying, illuminating and interpreting the holy fragments. They vow to preserve ancient knowledge, but will man learn from his mistakes or will history repeat itself...
A Novel
At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren't taught history, geography, or mathematicsat least not in the usual ways. Instead, they are taught to persuade. Here the art of coercion has been raised to a science. Students harness the hidden power of language to manipulate the mind and learn to break down individu...

Dune, Book 2
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After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in southern Australia await the radioactive cloud that is heading their way and bringing certain death to everyone in its path. Among them is an American submarine captain struggling to resist the knowledge that his wife and children in the United States must...

Culture, Book 6
In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about.In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard, too, has his enemies. But his enemies strike more swiftly, ...
A Novel
In an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a freshman girl stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep—and doesn’t wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics who carry her away, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. Then a second girl falls asle...
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When J. G. Ballard, our narrator, smashes his car into another and watches a man die in front of him, he finds himself drawn with increasing intensity to the mangled impacts of car crashes. Robert Vaughan, a former TV scientist turned nightmare angel of the expressway, has gathered around him a collection of alienated crash victims and experiments ...
Would you give up everything to change the worldHumanity clings to life on Januarya colonized planet divided between permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other.Two cities, built long ago in the meager temperate zone, serve as the last bastions of civilizationbut life inside them is just as dangerous as t...

Connie Willis' Hugo and Nebula Awardwinning Doomsday Book uses time travel for a serious look at how people connect with each other. In this Hugowinning companion to that novel, she offers a completely different kind of time travel adventure: a delightful romantic comedy that pays hilarious homage to Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat.When to...
Night's Dawn, Book 1
Space is not the only void...In AD 2600 the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds of colonized planets scattered across the galaxy host a multitude of prosperous and wildly diverse cultures. Genetic engineering has pushed evolution far beyond nature's boundaries, defeating disease and producing extraordinary spaceb...

A Lady Astronaut Novel (Lady Astronaut (1))
On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the east coast of the United States, including Washington D.C. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to co...

A Novel
To save his daughter, he'll go anywhere_x0097_and anywhen_x0085_Kin Stewart is an everyday family man: working in I.T., trying to keep the spark in his marriage, and struggling to connect with his teenage daughter, Miranda. But his current life is a far cry from his previous career as a timetraveling secret agent from 2142.Stranded in suburban San Francisco ...

A fantastical reimagining of the American West which draws its influence from steampunk, the American western tradition, and magical realismThe world is only half made. What exists has been carved out amidst a war between two rival factions: the Line, paving the world with industry and claiming its residents as slaves; and the Gun, a cult of terror...
It is the story of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the future has in store: a dark age of ignorance, barbarism and violence that will last for thirty thousand years. Gathering together a band of courageous men and...
The Baroque Cycle, Book 2
In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka HalfCocked Jack devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold.In Europe, the exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Count...

The Void, Book 3
Exposed as the Second Dreamer, Araminta has become the target of a galaxywide search by government agent Paula Myo and the psychopath known as the Cat, along with others equally determined to prevent or facilitate the pilgrimage of the Living Dream cult into the heart of the Void. An indestructible microuniverse, the Void may contain paradise, ...
Wool, Book 6
Wool introduced the world of the silo. Shift told the story of its creation. Dust will describe its downfall. Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesnt trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and white everything is shades of gray. Donald may not be the monster Juliette thinks he is, and may i...

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Book 2
Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to have a cosmically displaced Arthur Dent and his curious comrades in arms as they hurtle through space powered by pure improbability and desperately in search of a place to eat. Among Arthur's motley shipmates are Ford Prefect, a longtime friend and contributor to the The...
Hyperion Cantos, Book 3
The multipleawardwinning SF master returns to the universe that is his greatest successthe world of Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperionto tell a story of love and memory, triumph and terror in a novel even more magnificent than its predecessors....

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for Neville's blood.By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilisation. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn.How long can one man su...

The Illustrated Man, a seminal work in Ray Bradburys career, whose extraordinary power and imagination remain undimmed by times passage, is available from Simon & Schuster for the first time. A peerless American storyteller, Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. In these eighteen startling visions of humankinds destiny, unfolding across a canvas of de...

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Children of Time, Book 2
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the awardwinning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet.Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life but it was their mission to overwrite it with the memory of Earth. Then humanity's grea...
Imperial Radch, Book 1
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once, she was the Justice of Toren a colossal starship with an Artificial Intelligence, linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy. Now, an act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with one ...
Sprawl, Book 3
William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiawardwinning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive. Enter Gibson's unique world lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into t...

A Novel
alternate cover for ISBN 0708813623The chances that Lucifer's Hammer would hit the earth headon were one in a million. Then one in a thousand. Then one in a hundred. And then ... even less. alternate cover for ISBN 0708813623The chances that Lucifer's Hammer would hit the earth headon were one in a million. Then one in a thousand. Then one in a h...
Singularity Series, Book 2
Leon Tsarev is a high school student set on getting into a great college program, until his uncle, a member of the Russian mob, coerces him into developing a new computer virus for the mob’s botnet the slave army of computers they used to commit digital crimes.The evolutionary virus Leon creates, based on biological principles, is successful t...
A Novel
Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, PopSugar, Financial Times, Chicago Review of Books, Huffington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Thrillist, Book Riot, National Post (Canada), Kirkus and Publishers Weekly ?Am I a person? Borne asked me. ?Yes, you are a person,? I told him. ?But like a person, you can be ...

The Chronicles of St. Mary's Book One
The first book in the bestselling British madcap timetravelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone_x0092_s cup of tea._x0093_History is just one damned thing after another._x0094_ _x0097_Arnold ToynbeeBehind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary_x0092_s Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don_x0092_t...
Change or die. These are the only options available on the planet Jeep. Centuries earlier, a deadly virus shattered the original colony, killing the men and forever altering the few surviving women. Now, generations after the colony has lost touch with the rest of humanity, a company arrives to exploit Jeep_x0096_and its forces find themselves fighting f...
CHAPTER 1 The visitor, making his way unobserved through the crowded main laboratory of The Hill, stepped up to within six feet of the back of a big Norwegian seated at an electronooptical bench. Drawing an automatic pistol, he shot the apparently unsuspecting scientist seven times, as fast as he could pull the trigger; twice through the brain, fi...

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Bestselling awardwinning author Constance O'DayFlannery is the one true Queen of Time Travel Romance. Join her now in a story of a disillusioned young widow who returns to the past, caught, to her horror, in an unflattering lime green bridesmaid's dress when she meets the man whose love is destined to be hers. Time After Time After existing in a ...
When Kate PierceKeller_x0092_s grandmother gives her a strange blue medallion and speaks of time travel, sixteenyearold Kate assumes the old woman is delusional. But it all becomes horrifyingly real when a murder in the past destroys the foundation of Kate_x0092_s presentday life. Suddenly, that medallion is the only thing protecting Kate from blinking out...
A Novel (Semiosis Duology)
Human survival hinges on an bizarre alliance in Semiosis, a character driven science fiction novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke.ThrillistBest Books of 2018 (So Far)Chicago Review of BooksBest New Books of FebruarySyFy Wire9 SciFi and Fantasy, Novels to Read in FebruaryThe Verge18 Science Fiction and Fantasy, Books to Read in Fe...

When fragile, sixteenyearold Hope Walton loses her mom to an earthquake overseas, her secluded world crumbles. Agreeing to spend the summer in Scotland, Hope discovers that her mother was more than a brilliant academic, but also a member of a secret society of time travelers. Trapped in the twelfth century in the age of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Hope...
In the near future, the only thing growing faster than the criminal population is the Electric Church, a new religion founded by a mysterious man named Dennis Squalor. The Church preaches that life is too brief to contemplate the mysteries of the universe: eternity is required. In order to achieve this, the converted become Monks cyborgs with hu...

Miles Vorsokigan, Book 4
Leo Graf was an effective engineer. Safety regs weren't just the rule book he swore by; he'd helped write them. All that changed on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Leo was profoundly uneasy with the corporate exploitation of his bright new students... until that exploitation turned to something much worse. He hadn't anticipated a situation where...

a novel
Jacky was running. There was no thought in his head, only an intense drive to run. There was no sense he was getting anywhere, no plan, no destination, no future. All he had was a sense of what was behind, what he was running from. Jacky was running.The Natives of the Colony are restless. The Settlers are eager to have a nation of peace, and to bri...

A Zombie Novel (Gone with the Respiration)
Love can never die.Love conquers all, so they say. But can Cupid_x0092_s arrow pierce the hearts of the living and the dead or rather, the undead Can a proper young Victorian lady find true love in the arms of a dashing zombie The year is 2195. The place is New Victoria a hightech nation modeled on the manners, mores, and fashions of an antique er...

Timeless Series, Book 1
When tragedy strikes Michele Windsor's family, she is forced to move from Los Angeles to New York City to live with the wealthy, aristocratic grandparents she has never met. In their historic Fifth Avenue mansion, filled with a century's worth of family secrets, Michele discovers the biggest family secret of all an ancestor's diary that, amazingl...
Two hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn't one to complain. He's got a job _x0097_ transcribing old books and presenting them as the words of the great new leader, Fyodor Kuzmich, Glorybe _x0097_ and though he doesn't enjoy the privileged status of a Murza, at least he's not a serf or a halfhuman fourlegged Dege...

Sirantha Jax, Book 1
As the carrier of a rare gene, Sirantha Jax has the ability to jump ships through grimspacea talent which makes her a highly prized navigator for the Corp. Then a crash landing kills everyone on board, leaving Jax in a jail cell with no memory of the crash. But her fun's not over. A group of rogue fighters frees her...for a price: her help in over...
On a January day, a Presidential inauguration day, a onemegaton blast ripped through the Soviet embassy in Washington, D.C. Subsequent explosions around the globe changed the face and the shape of the earth forever. Out of the ruins emerged Deathlands. In this blasted heart of the new America, a group of people plan desperately to escape the eerie...
A mysterious disaster has stricken the midwestern American city of Bellona, and its aftereffects are disturbing: a city block burns down and is intact a week later; clouds cover the sky for weeks, then part to reveal two moons; a week passes for one person when only a day passes for another. The catastrophe is confined to Bellona, and most of the i...

From Bruce Sterling, bestselling author of Heavy Weather and Holy Fire, comes this startling, disturbing, and darkly comic vision of the future of America. It is the story of a once great nation coming apart at the seams while an unending spectacle of politics, science, sex, and corruption has everyone too busy to notice....It's November 2044, an ...

Nomad of the Time Streams, Book 1
It is 1973, and the stately airships of the Great Powers hold benign sway over a peaceful world. The balance of power is maintained by the British Empire a most equitable and just Empire, ruled by the beloved King Edward VIII. A new world order, with peace and prosperity for all under the law. Yet, moved by the politics of envy and perverse utopi...
In 1967, four female scientists worked together to build the world_x0092_s first time machine. But just as they are about to debut their creation, one of them suffers a breakdown, putting the whole project_x0097_and future of time travel_x0097_in jeopardy. To protect their invention, one member is exiled from the team_x0097_erasing her contributions from history.Fifty yea...
Revised edition: This edition of Toward Yesterday includes editorial revisions.What would you do if you suddenly found yourself twentyfive years in the past For the ninebillion people of the year 2042 it's no longer a question ... it is a realityWhen a seemingly simple experiment goes disastrously wrong, James Baston finds himself stranded along...
A Novel
It is the fourteenth century and one of the most apocalyptic events in human history is set to occur_x0097_the coming of the Black Death. History teaches us that a third of Europe's populations was destroyed. But what if the plague had killed 99 percent of the population instead How would the world have changed This is a look at the history that could ...
Time, moving backwards, and other notional reversals and transpositions attend the picaresque experiences of Hodge Backmaker and the aftermath of a Civil War in which the South was victorious. In the 1930's, Hodge comes to New York where he joins the Grand Army and is troubled by hate mongering. Some years later he meets Barbara Haggerwells and joi...
A disillusioned major, a highwaywoman, and a war raging across time.It_x0092_s 1788 and Alice Payne is the notorious highway robber, the Holy Ghost. Aided by her trusty automaton, Laverna, the Holy Ghost is feared by all who own a heavy purse.It_x0092_s 1889 and Major Prudence Zuniga is once again attempting to change history to save history but seventy attemp...
Living in an altered past that never saw the end of the Great Depression, Jeannine, a librarian, is waiting to be married. Joanna lives in a different version of reality: she's a 1970s feminist trying to succeed in a man's world. Janet is from Whileaway, a utopian earth where only women exist. And Jael is a warrior with steel teeth and catlike retr...

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King Arthur as you've never imagined! This bold, sizzling YA retells the popular legend with the Once and Future King as a teenage girl and she has a universe to save.I've been chased my whole life. As a fugitive refugee in the territory controlled by the tyrannical Mercer corporation, I've always had to hide who I am. Until I found Excalibur. N...

A Novel
Shortlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and a Best Book of the Year according to Real Simple, the Globe and Mail, and the CBC, this follows the love story of two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart. In this novel America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank catches the virus, his girlfriend Polly will do w...

A Comedy of Biology and Manners
Miles Vorkosigan has a problem: unrequited love for the beautiful widow Ekaterin Vorsoisson, violently allergic to marriage after her first exposure. If a frontal assault won't do, Miles thinks, try subterfuge. He has a cunning plan... Lord Mark Vorkosigan, Miles' brother, also has a problem: his love has just become unrequited again. But he has a ...
Wayfarers, Book 2
Lovelace was once merely a ship's Artificial Intelligence,. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shutdown and reboot, she has no memory of what came before. As Lovelace learns to negotiate the universe and discover who she is, she makes friends with Pepper, an excitable engineer, who's determined to help her learn and grow.Tog...

The Illuminae Files, Book 1
Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the worst thing she'd ever been through. That was before her planet was invaded. Now, with enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra are forced to fight their way onto one of the evacuating craft, with an enemy warship in hot pursuit. But the warship could be the least of their problems. A deadly plague h...

Alexis Carew #3 (Volume 3)
Newly commissioned lieutenant, Alexis Carew is appointed into HMS Shrewsbury, a 74gun ship of the line in New London_x0092_s space navy. She expects Shrewsbury will be sent into action in the war against Hanover, but instead she finds that she and her new ship are pivotal in a Foreign Office plot to bring the star systems of the French Republic into the...

We are not alone.On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches as her platoon is slaughtered by a monstrous supersoldier. On Earth, a highlevel politician struggles to prevent interplanetary war from reigniting. And on Venus, an alien protomolecule has overrun the planet, wreaking massive, mysterious changes and threateni...
On opposing sides, Captain Cordelia Naismith and Admiral Lord Aral Vorkosigan marry and live in aristocratic splendor on his home planet Barrayar. Cordelia agrees with the dying old emperor that the Empire would be better if Aral would serve, but he knows secrets she does not....

A Novel
From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. When Caroline Sears receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970 and there seems to be little that can be done. But her brotherinlaw, a physicist, tells her that perhaps there is. Hunter appeared in their lives just a few ye...
Stories
Ray Bradbury's second short story collection is back in print, its chilling encounters with funhouse mirrors, parasitic accidentwatchers, and strange poker chips intact. Both sides of Bradbury's vaunted childhood nostalgia are also on display, in the celebratory "Uncle Einar," and haunting "The Lake," the latter a fine elegy to childhood loss. Thi...

Dragonriders of Pern, Book 1
HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLDTo the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguise_x0097_and take back her stolen birthright. But everything changes when she mee...
Heechee Saga, Book 1
Gateway opened on all the wealth of the Universe... and on reaches of unimaginable horror. When prospector Robinette Broadhead went out to Gateway on the Heechee spacecraft, he decided he would know which was the right mission to make him his fortune. Three missions later, now famous and permanently rich, Rob Broadhead has to face what happened to ...

Revelation Space, Book 2
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A standalone book set in the USJ universe, Mecha Samurai Empire focuses on a group of aspiring mecha cadets preparing to fight the Nazis. Foremost among them, Makoto Fujimoto grew up in California, but with a differencehis California is part of the United States of Japan. After Germany and Japan won WWII, the United States fell under their contro...

Uplift Saga, Book 2
David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift Wara New York Times bestsellertogether make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being "uplifted" by ...

Extraordinary Machine
Eisner Awardnominated writer Kelly Sue DeConnick (Pretty Deadly, Captain Marvel) and Valentine De Landro (XFactor) team up to bring you the premiere volume of Bitch Planet, a deliciously vicious riff on womeninprison scifi exploitation.In a future just a few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman's failure to comply with her patri...

In Wyoming, a little girl reads people_x0092_s darkest secrets by the way they fold their arms. In New York, a man sensing patterns in the stock market racks up $300 billion. In Chicago, a woman can go invisible by being where no one is looking. They_x0092_re called "brilliants," and since 1980, one percent of people have been born this way. Nick Cooper is amo...
One exceptional boy journeys into the ashes of society to find the cure for a devastating plague in this riveting postapocalyptic standalone set in the same world as the USA Todaybestselling The Girl With All the Gifts.Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought the boy could save them, so they ...
Author(s): Charles Stross ISBN: 9781447246282 Binding: Paperback Published: 20171031 A time of ambition, treachery and dangerous secrets . . . Rita Douglas is plucked from her deadend job and trained as a reluctant US spy. All because she has the latent genetic talent to hop between alternate timelines and infiltrate them. Her United States is...

Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as a hero and despised as a murderer, chronicles his tale in the galaxyspanning debut of the Sun Eater series, merging the best of Space Opera, and epic Fantasy,.It was not his war.On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe started down a path that could only end in fire. The galaxy r...

Alexia Tarabotti, Book 3
Quitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season in the third book of the NYT bestselling Parasol Protectorate series.Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all...
There_x0092_s one thing worse than dying. It_x0092_s coming back to do it again and again_x0085_ When the alien Gitai invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many raw recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to find himself reborn each morning to fight and die again and again. On the 158th iteration though, he...

Highlander, Book 1
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Prefect Dreyfus Emergency, Book 2
Ten thousand citystate habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a nearperfect democratic human paradise. But even utopia needs a police force. For the citizens of the Glitter Band that organization is Panoply, and the prefects are its operatives.Prefect Tom Dreyfus has a new emergency on his hands. Across the habitats and their hundred mill...
In this unforgettable novel for fans of One Day and The Time Traveler_x0092_s Wife, a young Isaac Newton falls in love with a girl living in modernday San Francisco, defying the laws of physics to forge a seemingly impossible connection.Andrea Louviere is seven years old the first time he appears. While she_x0092_s alone in her bedroom, practicing her beloved...

Tales of the Ketty Jay, Book 1
Frey is the captain of the Ketty Jay, leader of a small and highly dysfunctional band of layabouts. An inveterate womaniser and rogue, he and his gang make a living on the wrong side of the law, avoiding the heavily armed flying frigates of the Coalition Navy. With their trio of ragged fighter craft, they run contraband, rob airships and generally ...
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This list aggregates books that appear in public recommendation sources, reader-interest signals, and category data. Books are ranked by their position from the source list; recommendation counts and ratings are shown where available. Open any book to see source-backed recommendation proof, editorial context, and Amazon options — the per-book detail page is where the trust signals live.
Who recommended these books
The people whose recommendations shaped this list.
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