Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
By: Sue Burke
3.91
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
In this character driven novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke, human survival hinges on…
Want to Read $ 2.99"Equality is not a fact, like the length of days... Equality is an idea, a belief, like beauty."-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
"A Pax day and night lasted about twenty Earth hours, and a Pax year about 490 Earth days. A year seemed like such a long time."-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
"I have a significant and inescapable communication to enter into with them. Animals never grow smarter, but I do. Ours will be a rewarding relationship."-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
"... what bothered them more were the pink slugs twenty centimeters long they found eating old carcasses. The slugs would attack anything and dissolved living flesh on contact."-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
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1. Noumenon
By: Marina J. Lostetter
3.00
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
With nods to Arthur C. Clarke's Rama series, the real science of Neal Stephenson's Seveneves, a tou… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- space
- audiobook
2. Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
By: Peter Watts
4.01
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Two months since the stars fell... Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched a… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- aliens
- speculative fiction
- space
- fantasy
"Evolution has no foresight. Complex machinery develops its own agendas. Brains — cheat. Feedback loops evolve to promote stable heartbeats and then stumble upon the temptation of rhythm and music. Th…"-Peter Watts, Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
3. The Boat of a Million Years
By: Poul Anderson
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
Others have written SF on the theme of immortality, but in The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anders… read more
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4. System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
By: Martha Wells
4.22
Format: 245 pages, Hardcover
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. … read more
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- science fiction fantasy
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- adult
- space
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- audiobook
"(I'm going to have to code a patch for threat assessment.)"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"I said, “Have you done something that you feel you should be threatened for?"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"Bad things may not be more statistically possible but it sure seems like they are."-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
"Then he sent me a note back. So, you may not know this but I read your letter to Dr. Mensah, the one you sent when you left Port FreeCommerce. I think you're absolutely the right person to write this…"-Martha Wells, System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
5. The Polymorph
By: Max Nowaz
4.29
Format: None pages, ebook
Arbitrator, Jim Brown is returning to Earth after completing a successful mission to put down a rev… read more
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- science fiction
- fiction
"One thing I have learnt is that you may do a lot of evil things, but if you are ever afforded a chance to be good, then you should take it. You will feel better about yourself."-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
"If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble."-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
"He was planning to take my shape and marry you. Then he was going to kill your father and take over his business empire." "And you? What are your plans?" "I have no plans to kill your father."-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
"Every morning when I wake up, I ask myself, "Why was I born?" Then I answer myself, "You were born to be successful." If you can learn to define your own success and not let others dictate it, you ca…"-Max Nowaz, The Polymorph
6. Translation State
By: Ann Leckie
4.09
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- space
- fantasy
- audiobook
"I am not a potato."-Ann Leckie, Translation State
"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"-Ann Leckie, Translation State
7. Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.02
Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition
The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary … read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- aliens
- speculative fiction
- space
- fantasy
- audiobook
"The essential fallacy,' Ghoti picks up, 'is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And …"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
8. Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 597 pages, Audible Audio
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for surviv… read more
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- space
- fantasy
- audiobook
"We can only observe the present before we go on to destroy the future."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Complex life was merely the recent froth over a great vat of prokaryotes feeding and dividing and dying."-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Perhaps Senkovi would have approved; he who had once seen himself as the trickster god of the pantheon, before there were no more gods left to trick. Perhaps Senkovi would have recalled ancient human…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
"Meshner has read simplified children’s histories of the spider civilization, vocal in explaining that, these days, everything is fine and male spiders are allowed to play a full role in society. In p…"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
9. The Saint of Bright Doors
By: Vajra Chandrasekera
3.71
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
10. Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel
By: Todor Bombov
4.37
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
2nd Book in Sci-Fi Series Is Set on Saturn’s Moon Homo Cosmicus-2: Titan is a sci-fi novel, sui … read more
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- science fiction
"While an elderly man in his mid-eighties looks curiously at a porno site, his grandson asks him from afar, “‘What are you reading, grandpa?’"-Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel
"Let’s get to know each other. My name’s William, William More, but you can call me Willy. I’m an engineer-chemist who graduated from MIT. So . . . but you’re all alike to me . . . of course, you woul…"-Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel
11. Shards of Earth (The Final Architecture, #1)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.19
Format: None pages, Audiobook
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space oper… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- aliens
- adult
- space
- fantasy
- audiobook
12. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
By: Zoë Schlanger
4.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
13. Service Model
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
14. Alien Clay
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.06
Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition
They travelled into the unknown and left themselves behind . . . On the distant world of Kiln li… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- adult
- fiction
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- aliens
- speculative fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
15. The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain
By: Sofia Samatar
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Celebrated author Sofia Samatar presents a mystical, revolutionary space adventure for the exhauste… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- space
- fantasy
16. Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
By: Sue Burke
3.91
Format: 333 pages, Hardcover
In this character driven novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke, human survival hinges on… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- adult
- fiction
- science fiction
- aliens
- speculative fiction
- space
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Equality is not a fact, like the length of days... Equality is an idea, a belief, like beauty."-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
"A Pax day and night lasted about twenty Earth hours, and a Pax year about 490 Earth days. A year seemed like such a long time."-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
"I have a significant and inescapable communication to enter into with them. Animals never grow smarter, but I do. Ours will be a rewarding relationship."-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
"... what bothered them more were the pink slugs twenty centimeters long they found eating old carcasses. The slugs would attack anything and dissolved living flesh on contact."-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
17. Intermnemosis
By: Celia Corral-Vázquez
4.09
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
Ya no hay vuelta atrás. Han secuestrado una nave, a una doctora y al último espécimen que queda de … read more
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- science fiction
18. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)
By: James S.A. Corey
4.24
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more
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- aliens
- adult
- space
- fantasy
- audiobook
19. Noumenon Ultra (Noumenon, #3)
By: Marina J. Lostetter
3.78
Format: 576 pages, Paperback
Deep in the heart of an alien mountain range, ICC. has lain dormant, its ships silent, for eons. No… read more
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- fiction
- science fiction
- aliens
- space
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20. Saturation Point
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.93
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
A group of scientists and soldiers are hunted by mysterious enemies in a terrifying new climate thr… read more
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- audiobook
