The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.88
Format: 563 pages, Hardcover
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu…
Want to Read $ 11.99"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
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1. The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
By: Liu Cixin , Joel Martinsen
4.41
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
This is the second novel in "Remembrance of Earth’s Past", the near-future trilogy written by China… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- novels
- speculative fiction
- 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
- speculative fiction
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
"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. Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
By: Octavia E. Butler
3.82
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey tow… read more
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- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- fiction
4. The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin
4.08
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals in… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- novels
- speculative fiction
- audiobook
"It’s easy to be led to the abyss."-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
"Your lack of fear is based on your ignorance."-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
"Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing."-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
"A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything."-Ken Liu, The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
5. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.25
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more
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- politics
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- novels
- speculative fiction
"... “Dangerous!"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Freedom is never very safe."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Who do you think is lying to us?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
6. The Wandering Earth
By: Liu Cixin , Holger Nahm , None , None
3.73
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000. I've never seen the night, nor seen a star; I'… read more
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7. Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
By: Ken Liu , Liu Cixin
4.42
Format: 604 pages, Hardcover
With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking readers got their first chance to experience the mult… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- audiobook
"Time is the cruelest force of all."-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
"We’re going to advance! Advance! We’ll stop at nothing to advance!"-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
"Ignorance and weakness is not an impediment to survival. Arrogance is."-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
"Life reached an evolutionary milestone when it climbed onto land from the ocean, but those first fish that climbed onto land ceased to be fish."-Ken Liu, Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
8. Children of Time
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a ne… read more
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9. The Water Knife
By: Paolo Bacigalupi
3.28
Format: 5 pages, Hardcover
In the American Southwest, Nevada, Arizona, and California skirmish for dwindling shares of the Col… read more
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10. Trust
By: Hernan Diaz
3.83
Format: 402 pages, Hardcover
10 hours, 21 minutes From an award-winning chronicler of our nation's history and its legends co… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- audiobook
"Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Silence between 2 is always shared. But 1 of the 2 owns it and shares it with the other."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
"Sleeplessness kept claiming her nights, and she used books as shields against the onslaught of her abstract terrors."-Hernan Diaz, Trust
11. 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
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- 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)
12. 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
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- 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
13. The Terraformers
By: Annalee Newitz
3.37
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- audiobook
14. 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
- novels
- speculative fiction
- 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)
15. 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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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- novels
- speculative fiction
- 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)
16. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
By: Naomi Klein
4.22
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more
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- politics
- audiobook
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
17. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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- novels
- environment
- fiction
- audiobook
"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
18. The Future
By: Naomi Alderman
3.86
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handfu… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- audiobook
"There’s a beautiful world on the far shore,"-Naomi Alderman, The Future
"The day was new now, as it is new every morning."-Naomi Alderman, The Future
"There was fog, but behind the fog there was morning."-Naomi Alderman, The Future
"The most persistent hauntings are the ghosts of lost futures."-Naomi Alderman, The Future
19. The Overstory
By: Richard Powers
4.12
Format: 502 pages, Paperback
The Overstory is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning ev… read more
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- novels
- environment
- fiction
- audiobook
"Human history was the story of increasingly disoriented hunger."-Richard Powers, The Overstory
"The confirmation of others: a sickness the entire race will die of."-Richard Powers, The Overstory
"Civilized yards are all alike. Every wild yard is wild in its own way."-Richard Powers, The Overstory
"Trees fall with spectacular crashes. Planting is silent and growth invisible."-Richard Powers, The Overstory
20. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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- politics
- audiobook
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
21. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet
By: Hannah Ritchie
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more
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- climate change
- politics
- environment
- audiobook
22. Termination Shock
By: Neal Stephenson
3.83
Format: 708 pages, Hardcover
A visionary technothriller about climate change. Neal Stephenson's sweeping, prescient new nove… read more
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- audiobook
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- climate change fiction
- climate change
- speculative fiction
- environment
- science fiction
23. The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.88
Format: 563 pages, Hardcover
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more
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- audiobook
- politics
- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- climate change fiction
- climate change
- novels
- speculative fiction
- environment
- science fiction
"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
24. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
By: John Vaillant
4.35
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more
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- climate change
- politics
- environment
- audiobook
25. How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
By: Vaclav Smil
3.97
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If … read more
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- climate change
- politics
- environment
- audiobook
"Найліпше нашу пасивність і надзвичайну складність проблеми глобального потепління можна проілюструвати таким фактом: тридцять років масштабних міжнародних кліматичних конференцій ніяк не вплинули на …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
"У 2010-х роках саме джипи стали другою найбільшою причиною зростання викидів CO2, лишивши позаду важку промисловість, вантажоперевезення й авіацію. Обігнала їх тільки електроенергетика. Якщо народна …"-Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future
26. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
By: Jeff Goodell
4.32
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more
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- climate change
- politics
- environment
- audiobook
27. Sea of Tranquility
By: Emily St. John Mandel
4.07
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
A novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 t… read more
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- science fiction fantasy
- fiction
- science fiction
- speculative fiction
- audiobook
"It seems like it’s been fairly well contained,"-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
"You should have told me my cat was a time traveler."-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
"There's a low-level, specific pain and having to accept that putting up with you requires a certain generosity of spirit in your loved ones."-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
"What if one were to dissolve into the wilderness like salt into water. He wants to go home. For the first time, Edwin begins to worry about his sanity."-Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
28. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
By: Andreas Malm
3.96
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more
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- climate change
- politics
- environment
"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline
29. Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto
By: Kōhei Saitō
3.91
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary p… read more
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- climate change
- politics
- environment
- audiobook
30. The Deluge
By: Stephen Markley
4.23
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching c… read more
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- audiobook
- fiction
- climate change fiction
- climate change
- novels
- speculative fiction
- science fiction
"Yeah, well, time marches on. Getting caught up in causes don’t interest me. Not anymore. Especially when you see the scope of what this is."-Stephen Markley, The Deluge
