Best Science Fiction Books

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.

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.

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.

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…

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 ...

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

Opens like a claustrophobic monastic saga thick with invented rituals and a steep vocabulary that forces slow reading. Midbook the scope expands into broad speculative stakes, but momentum is repeatedly halted by extended debate sections that read like seminar transcripts. Useful payoff: sustained intellectual puzzles and baroque worldbuilding that reward patience and re-reading. Annoying elements: a heavy lexicon, frequent exposition dumps, and emotional distance from characters—readers who want tight, character-first storytelling will likely lose patience.

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 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.

William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiawardwinning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date... The Mona Lisa Overdrive.

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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

Hardwired reads like a lean, high-velocity cyberpunk ride: set-piece action, gritty street-level politics, and visceral depictions of neural hardware. Its useful part is kinetic pacing and vivid setpieces—fights, chases, and the practical implications of being physically 'hardwired' into weapons and networks. Limitation: characters tilt toward archetypes and the moral world is bluntly carved, so readers wanting psychological subtlety or slow-building thematic unpacking may feel shortchanged. No hands-on exercises—it's pure narrative adrenaline with tech atmosphere.

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…

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.

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…

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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…

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.

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.

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…

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Company Town lands as a claustrophobic, noir-tinged near-future mystery set inside a corporate-controlled city. The prose leans cinematic: close third-person focus, compressed scenes, and repeated returns to the social logic of a place run like a private company. Useful when you want a morally ambiguous detective story that foregrounds power, surveillance and social dependence. Limitation: readers who prefer brisk plot-forward mysteries may find long worldbuilding passages and ethical rumination slow the momentum.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

Newly commissioned lieutenant, Alexis Carew is appointed into HMS Shrewsbury, a 74gun ship of the line in New London_x0092_s space navy.

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.

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.

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.

Ray Bradbury's second short story collection is back in print, its chilling encounters with funhouse mirrors, parasitic accidentwatchers, and strange poker chips intact.

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.

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.

Chasm City drops you into a once-utopian metropolis collapsed under a contagion that warps bodies and machines. The prose leans hard on atmosphere: neon grime, ruined architecture, and a persistent sense of paranoia and moral rot. The most useful part is the book’s sustained, unsettling mood and vivid sensory detail that make the infected city feel lived-in; the most limiting is pacing—dense description and info-heavy passages can stall forward momentum. Best read when you want mood and worldbuilding over lean plotting.

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.

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.

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 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.

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…

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.

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,…

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…

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.

Beyond the Highland Mist drops a modern woman into medieval Scotland and pairs her with a brooding laird; the hook is immediate and the story leans on passionate attraction, court intrigue, and fae interference. Karen Marie Moning favors vivid atmosphere and romantic escalation, so chapters move fast and reward readers who want heat and escapism rather than nuanced historical realism. Useful bits: strong sensual set‑pieces and a satisfying fish‑out‑of‑time conflict. Limiting bits: melodramatic turns, repeated emotional beats, and occasional lapses in internal logic that will annoy readers who prefer tight plotting.

Ten thousand citystate habitats orbit the planet Yellowstone, forming a nearperfect democratic human paradise. But even utopia needs a police force.

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…

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.