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Sci-Fi books

Science fiction from the genre-defining classics to the newest award winners: ships, cities, robots, first contact and the futures we keep writing about. 536 books so far, across 143 series, plus 274 titles with no series listed. This is page 12 of the shelf.

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Cover of The Algebraist by Iain M. BanksRating coming soon

The Algebraist

Iain M. Banks · 2004

Fassin Taak is a Slow Seer, one of a dynasty of researchers who spend their working lives among the Dwellers, the ancient species that occupies the galaxy's gas giants. Seers slow their own metabolisms to hold conversations with beings who measure their lives in millions of years. Then his system is cut off, he is drafted into a religious and military order, and he is sent back among the Dwellers to find something he once glimpsed in their archives: a list of coordinates that may lead to their private network of wormholes.

Space operaHard science fiction
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Memory

Lois McMaster Bujold · 1996

Miles Vorkosigan has spent years commanding a mercenary fleet for his home world's security service under a rank that exists mostly on paper, and in Memory the medical problem he has been hiding finally catches up with him. The falsified report he files to cover it costs him the career he built. Back on Barrayar, cut off from the only work he was ever good at, he watches his former employer collapse and finds himself the one person able to look into why.

Space operaMilitary science fiction
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Islands in the Sky

Arthur C. Clarke · 1952

Roy Malcolm is sixteen and knows the history of aviation better than anyone else on his television quiz show, which is how he wins a prize he insists on taking five hundred miles up. The Inner Station orbits inside the limit that the law of the time treats as Earth, so his trip to it is technically covered, and he spends two weeks living with the apprentices who run the place. Then a secretive ship anchors off the station and the apprentices go looking for a crime.

Classic science fictionYoung adult science fiction
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To Be Taught, If Fortunate

Becky Chambers · 2019

Four scientists travel fifteen light years from Earth to study four worlds that might support life, sleeping through the decades between them and waking in bodies their own DNA has been prepared for. Ariadne, the crew's engineer and leader, records their work in a series of letters home. The mission is designed as a gift to the people who sent it, on the understanding that whatever the crew discovers belongs to everybody. What they cannot plan is what is happening on Earth while they sleep.

Hard science fictionExploration fiction
Cover of We Who Are About To... by Joanna RussRating coming soon

We Who Are About To...

Joanna Russ · 1977

A disaster leaves a handful of survivors stranded on an unknown planet with no way home, no useful technical skills between them and very little food. Most of the men in the group decide that their duty is to found a colony, which would make the women in the party responsible for populating it, and one survivor wants no part of a plan she is convinced cannot work. Joanna Russ tells the story through her audio diary as the argument gets worse.

Survival fictionExperimental fiction
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Network Effect

Martha Wells · 2020

Murderbot is a security unit that hacked its own governor module years ago and has been quietly doing as it pleases ever since, most of which involves watching soap operas. In the first full-length novel of the series, it is escorting a research expedition when a hostile ship attacks, and Murderbot and one of its humans are taken aboard by force. The transport turns out to be one it has travelled on before, and the artificial intelligence running it has plans.

Space operaRobot and AI
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Noor

Nnedi Okorafor · 2021

Anwuli Okwudili calls herself AO, for Autobionic Organism, and she has spent her life being told that her body is wrong: born with limbs that needed rebuilding, and rebuilt again with cybernetic prosthetics after a car accident. She works as a mechanic in Abuja, in a Nigeria where everything is streamed and a permanent sandstorm is eating the north. Then a trip to a market goes catastrophically wrong, and AO is a fugitive running north with a herdsman who is also wanted for murder.

CyberpunkSurvival fiction
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Roadmarks

Roger Zelazny · 1979

There is a road that runs through time, with an exit at every year and at every history that might have been, and only a small number of people can find it. Red Dorakeen has been travelling it for a long time, supplying weapons to the Athenians at Marathon and trying to restore a version of the past he half remembers, because somewhere off the road is a place he can no longer reach. He is also being hunted by a series of assassins, each of them with reasons of their own.

Science fantasyTime travel

What fits on this shelf

The science fiction shelf runs from the nineteenth-century novels that set the rules to books published this decade. Space opera and first contact sit beside cyberpunk, military science fiction, time travel, climate fiction, dystopia and stories about robots and minds that are not human.

A book qualifies when the science or the speculation shapes the story: a technology, a discovery or a world that could not exist here. Science fantasy that blends the two is welcome, and a couple of titles on this shelf also sit on the fantasy shelf because both descriptions are fair.

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Contemporary Romance

Modern love stories: offices, small towns, sports teams, group chats and people who talk too much.

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Romance

The love story is the plot: fantasy courts, dragon academies and modern cities all count.

676 booksPrimary genre

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Epic quests, grimdark cities, retold myths and a few very stubborn rabbits.

685 booksPrimary genre

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Haunted houses, old vampires, cosmic dread and the odd very bad week.

381 booksPrimary genre

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Detectives, spies, locked rooms and the people who lie to the police.

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Cathedrals, courts, trenches and revolutions, all of it set in a past that is doing the work.

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Literary Fiction

Novels where the prose carries the book: families, cities, memory and the modern self.

575 booksPrimary genre

Adventure

Shipwrecks, expeditions, chases, frontiers and people who should have turned back.

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