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Best Easy Sci-Fi Books for Beginners, Teens & Young Adults

Discover the best easy-to-read sci-fi books for beginners & teens. Explore modern science fiction novels that inspire young adults with great stories.
With the growing interest in entry-level Sci-Fi literature, I have received numerous requests for recommendations. In response, I'm pleased to share my expert insights in this article.
 
Within this post, you will discover the best science fiction books for beginners, teens & young adults, which are based on my in-depth study and testing in this field, including books like Dark Matter, Ender's Game, Flowers for Algernon, Replay, and Cat's Cradle. 

These aren't the only introductory Sci-Fi reads on this topic. Below, you'll find sci-fi books with detailed descriptions of each of these outstanding resources, helping you make well-informed decisions in your journey through the easy-to-read sci-fi book genre.

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1. Dark Matter: A Novel


What surprised me the most about this book is that it was originally just a science fiction novel, but the romance part is much better than some pure romance novels. 

The male protagonist's passion is so deep that he desperately wants to find his own wife in his own world, which is very touching. 

After losing everything, in order not to let himself forget, he tied a coil on his ring finger where he wore the ring, and sacrificed his career for the sake of his family. 

A choice you regret? A whole book just tells us the answer. There are really not many novels like this for a male writer to write such a delicate and affectionate story about the male protagonist from a male perspective.

Personally, I think the whole story frame is very clever and novel, and then filling in some daily things into it should be easy to write. 

After reading the postscript, the author said that writing this book was very painful and laborious. 

I couldn't help but laugh at myself for being so naive. It seems that the development of the storyline is towards the imagination, which means that it is really difficult to write within this framework. 

In addition, the escape part of this book is actually a bit delayed. Although it is confusing, it does not give readers a strong desire to read on. 

There may be something missing, and the characters gradually become more fleshed out and better looking later on.


2. Ender's Game


"Ender's Game" also starts with lies. The protagonist Ander thought from the beginning that he was just playing a game, so when he learned that he had inadvertently destroyed the Zerg, he felt so remorseful that he finally embarked on the road to redeem the Zerg.
  
The story background of the game is set in the future. At that time, the earth had suffered two consecutive invasions by alien Zerg. 

The second time was particularly disastrous. Humanity was almost wiped out. Fortunately, a legendary figure named Mazer Rehan appeared later. He was also Ender's life mentor. Under his command, mankind turned the tide of the war and the earth barely survived. 

After the Second Zerg War, the International Fleet believed that it was necessary to search for gifted children around the world and send them to a space station dedicated to training children, that is, a battle school. 

Only by shaping them into military wizards through professional training can mankind have hope of survival


3. Flowers for Algernon


"Flowers for Algernon" is a "soft science fiction" novel that shows the rich psychological state of the protagonist Charlie Gordon as he changes from a fool to a genius and then declines back to a fool, which is a one-sentence summary of this novella. 

With the help of first-person writing to accurately portray the character's spirit and thinking, the text presents an extremely rich four-dimensional space that simulates real life, like a complex material library, and any form of interpretation can reach a certain endpoint, just as we use Look at your life from a different perspective. 

First of all, this is a fascinating and good story. The components of gain and loss, memory and forgetting, growth and decline, and construction and disintegration are all painful and make people cry. 

Of course, experimental technology can also be discussed along the lines of science fiction works. Boundary, the bottom line of scientific ethics. 

However, in my opinion, science and technology in the story are only used as a means of promoting sudden changes in the story rather than as the core spirit. 

It takes Charlie's hand out of the cave and forces him to return to the darkness - the extremely smart mouse Algernon and Charlie What Gordon experienced together was a fable about human rationality. 


4. Replay


After reading the novel "Replay" by American novelist Ken Greenwood, I suddenly had a deeper understanding. 

The protagonist Jeff died of a heart attack one day when he was forty-three years old. However, when he woke up, he found that he was reborn at the age of eighteen. 

From this beginning, he continued to die and be reborn, but the age of each rebirth was closer to the age of death until the moment of his rebirth coincided with the moment of death. 

He experienced that repetitive era over and over again. He couldn't take away what he wanted to take away, but he would definitely lose what he would lose.

In his first rebirth, his second life, he quickly escaped from the panic of sudden rebirth. He used the historical events he knew to quickly become a casino tycoon and financial genius. 

Seeing others struggling with their ambitions and ever-losing desires, he became excited and felt that he had taken control of his life. 

However, things went against his expectations. He thought that he would be able to get rid of the stagnant marriage and dead-end job in his first life. 

However, he still failed to prevent Kennedy from being assassinated and his marriage continued to be unhappy. 

He cherished the biological daughter he had no chance of having in his first life, but when the moment of death came, all of it was reduced to smoke.

In the third life, he began to want to cherish it. He had discovered how meaningless it was to use material achievements to measure the value of life. 

He changed the role he pursued in life and became a warm, responsible husband and father. 

But no matter how hard he tried, he could not prevent it all from becoming in vain, and his emotional investment ultimately failed to fill the loneliness and emptiness he felt after being reborn.


5. Cat's Cradle: A Novel


After reading the novel, a sentence on the back of the cover caught my attention: [ Reading Vonnegut is to use black humor to resist absurd reality]. 

This statement makes sense if you think about it carefully - just imagine that when the public is endlessly studying the bumpy life and experience of Oppenheimer, known as the "Father of the Atomic Bomb", who will shed tears for the recipient of the atomic bomb? 

Who would still think about how terrible the damage caused by atomic bombs to human beings?

This is the absurdity of reality. When the writer Vonnegut took this absurdity as a "joke" and wrote it into a story, the concept of "resistance" in the work was born. 

It's just that the prototype of his creation was replaced by another great man of science, "Owen Langmuir", and his brushstrokes turned away from the serious side.
 


6. Leviathan Wakes


In "Leviathan Wakes", the protagonist Holden is the deputy captain of an ice-harvesting ship. He accidentally encounters an abandoned spacecraft during a mission. 

While landing on the ship for search and rescue, he The ice ship is blown up by an unidentified stealth ship using heavy weapons, and Horton also discovers a shocking secret on the abandoned ship. 

Caught between multiple forces, Horton and his crew began to search for the truth of the incident. 

The second protagonist, Miller, is a police officer who receives a missing person mission after quelling a riot. 

The target is a missing girl. During the search, clues led Miller to the abandoned spaceship discovered by Horton and his team. 

He realized that this girl was the key to solving all the mysteries. The story unfolds under the intertwining of two main lines. 

The two protagonists must deal with the Earth government, the Martian government and the outer planet alliance, travel across the entire solar system, and uncover the largest conspiracy in human history. 

The series tells an exciting story with characteristics of Star Wars and Firefly in a completely new way.

The author of this book, James S.A. Corey, is actually a pen name shared by two authors, Ty Frank and Daniel Abraham. 

The latter once worked with the author of "A Song of Ice and Fire" George R. · R. Martin has been working together for a long time. 

With Martin's encouragement, Daniel Abraham created this set of novels with great enthusiasm and invited Martin to write a recommendation. 

George R.R. Martin once said that he had not seen such a wonderful space opera for a long time and praised the series as a great work. 

In fact, many book critics have compared "Leviathan Wakes" to a space version of "A Song of Ice and Fire." 

Currently, the novels in the "The Expanse of the Sky" series have been published in seventeen countries around the world, including France, Japan, Australia, Canada, and Germany.


7. The Martian


The Martian by Andy Weir

The Martian by Andy Weir

"The Martian" was originally a love letter to science written by geeks, but its influence has already crossed the gap between literature and science, becoming the best science fiction novel in recent years. 

There is no boring plot in this book, nor is there any shallow and deliberate villain setting. Its plot is extremely simple: How can a lonely astronaut survive on Mars? 

There are no bad guys in this book, the only villain that needs to be dealt with is the desolate red planet. 

And how can astronaut Mark Watney, who represents human wisdom, rationality, and optimism, "use science to kill this planet"?
 

8. Red Rising


Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

YA novels have been in the spotlight in the past two years, The Hunger Games is undoubtedly one of the best, and RED RISING is likely to become the next popular series of novels. 

Although it is a YA novel, its setting is more adult than The Hunger Games. , the class differences established by the color scale are very interesting. 

In addition to highlighting the sharp class antagonism, it also has a hint of the proletarian revolution. 

The main line of revenge follows the style of the Count of Monte Cristo-style classical novels (but this is, after all, It is a science fiction commercial entertainment novel, but it is a bit less in-depth, everything is just to make the story more interesting). 

The names of the characters in the book are basically named after characters in Roman mythology or Greek mythology, which is ahead of The Hunger Games The scale of violence and gore is much larger. 

Although the setting is a science fiction theme, there is also standard science fiction equipment such as high-powered guns, anti-gravity boots, and star battleships. 

However, these cannot cover up the original bloody nature of the violent scenes in the novel. On the contrary, it is not suitable for teenagers to read. 

The author has been relatively successful in mixing various elements. It has also achieved very good sales results once it was released in the United States. 

It also received very good reviews on Amazon. Although there are some delays, it is still a good debut novel. 

This is a quite mature commercial novel (I personally think it is better than The Hunger Games). 

In January this year, the second Golden Son was still well received, and the film adaptation is also in preparation. 

If this continues, it will only be a matter of time before it becomes the second Hunger Games.


9. Childhood's End


Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

After reading this book, one thing can probably be determined: for full-time science fiction writers, we should just pay attention to their hard science fiction. 

No matter how much fans of full-time authors praise the rich connotations of soft science fiction that is based on ideological content - in fact, in the eyes of real humanities researchers, most of the time it can be labeled as "superficial". 

On the contrary, only authors who are eclectic and engage in writing other types of novels besides science fiction can write first-rate soft science fiction. 

After all, just as a writer who writes pure literature rarely truly understands the cutting-edge of contemporary science and technology, a technical nerd writer who is bored all day long in scientific terms often does not really understand what humanistic care and ultimate value are.
 
 

10. 1984


1984 by George Orwell

1984 by George Orwell

My opinion about 1984 is: that this is an extremely pessimistic work, the kind of desperate pessimism is like hunger, cold, or physical pain. 

You think you can grit your teeth and persist in the past with indifference, but the result is just to prove your weakness again and again.

What creates that kind of pessimism and despair is nothing else but human nature itself - politics is an extension of human nature, and the political system is the setting of our lifestyle. 

It is human beings who live for themselves, the fate of future generations, and a handful of loess or dry bones in the future. 

Remaining ideals and hopes. The social system and lifestyle envisioned by Orwell in the book did not scare me. 

What frightened me was the reasons for that lifestyle - "The purpose of torture is to torture, the purpose of torture is to torture, the purpose of power is Power."
 


11. We Are Legion


We Are Legion by Dennis E. Taylor

We Are Legion by Dennis E. Taylor

One issue that this book, as well as Superbody, Lucy, etc., ignore is that superintelligence will inevitably attach importance to the study of physics, and will inevitably devote energy to the study of mathematics. 

The lack of relevant background of the main creative personnel makes the style of these superintelligences very low. 

In this regard, Bradley Cooper's film is the worst (Addict), Lucy goes into metaphysics, and Johnny Depp's self-built laboratory is quite awesome. 

Bill in this book is pretty good (he developed "Ancebo"), but the author is a coder, so it's naturally impossible to describe the relevant details. 

It is a pity that an exponentially growing artificial intelligence community with an unlimited lifespan under (real!) instant communication conditions has unlimited potential in scientific research!!!
 

12. House of Suns


House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds

House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds

A super surprising reading experience! 

A series of space adventure stories about human clones with a lifespan of 6 million years as they travel to the Milky Way to reunite. 

During the journey, there are conspiracies and infighting, robot disputes, historical flashbacks, and a little bit of humanity... 

This is an exciting book A science fiction masterpiece that you won’t be able to put down!!! 

Whispered: Shatterling’s setting seems to be a bit like a Horcrux. And I haven’t read enough of Abigail’s story!!
 

13. A Canticle for Leibowitz


A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.

A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.


This book is about three periods of the history of a monastery that aims to preserve knowledge in the dark age after the nuclear war, from the dark age after the nuclear war to the rediscovery of modern science, to human civilization reaching its peak again but being destroyed by the nuclear war. 

Two thousand years of destruction - the final fate of this monastery is that the monks took scientists, books, and children on a spaceship and flew to the human colonial world in outer space, leaving the last words to the world, 'Sic transit mundus' ', "The world will disappear."

The book itself explores the relationship between human nature and knowledge/progress. Can humans, or rather intelligent beings, responsibly harness the immense power they have gained through scientific and technological advancement? Won't it self-destruct? 

Human nature is immutable, and modern man has unprecedented power and is probably destined to self-destruct. This is the most desperate explanation for the Fermi Paradox and the truth about the Great Filter.


14. To Your Scattered Bodies Go


This book seems a bit like desert island survival, but this story takes place in a situation where people from all ages and cultures are mixed together. 

Looking at the culture and age, you can also interact with aliens at the same time ( Anyway, it’s just an extra) Life Collision is still very good, and the character creation is also good and vivid. 

But other than that, the story itself may not be very attractive, and the settings are not detailed enough.


15. Dune


Dune by Frank Herbert

Dune by Frank Herbert

I have been admiring this masterpiece for a long time. Although there are various words created by the author in the book, it overall does not affect the reading experience. 

After adapting to the author's vocabulary habits, the reading becomes better. I have watched David Lynch's 1984 version of the movie before, and I am even more looking forward to Wa Shen's new work. 

After reading the book, I was worried that the Washen Sweet Tea Combination would also disappoint me. 

After all, the realistic representation of an Arab-style Muslim jihad background is not popular in Hollywood. I wonder if the movie will make corresponding adjustments. 

Perhaps influenced by the recent news, when I read the second half of the book, what I thought about repeatedly was the modern history of Afghanistan. 

And the geographical environment also has the shadow of the Middle East. This may be the reason why the Dune series is regarded as a classic by Western readers. 

After nearly sixty years, we can still read some reflections of reality from this science fiction work, as if like Paul, with the help of spice, the past, the present, and the future are mysteriously blended together. 


16. Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun


Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' by Gene Wolfe

Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe 

One of the most acclaimed "science fantasies" ever, Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun is a long, magical novel in four volumes. Shadow & Claw contains the first two: The Shadow of the Torturer and The Claw of the Conciliator, which won the World Fantasy and Nebula Awards respectively.

This is the first-person narrative of Severian, a lowly apprentice torturer blessed and cursed with a photographic memory, whose travels lead him through the marvels of far-future Urth, and who--as revealed near the beginning--eventually becomes his land's sole ruler or Autarch. 

On the surface, it's a colorful story with all the classic ingredients: growing up, adventure, sex, betrayal, murder, exile, battle, monsters, and mysteries to be solved. (Only well into book 2 do we realize what saved Severian's life in chapter 1.) 

For lovers of literary allusions, there are plenty here: a Dickensian cemetery scene, a torture engine from Kafka, a wonderful library out of Borges, and familiar fables changed by eons of retelling. 

Wolfe evokes a chilly sense of time's vastness, with an age-old, much-restored painting of a golden-visored "knight," really an astronaut standing on the moon, and an ancient citadel of metal towers, actually grounded spacecraft. Even the sun is senile and dying, so Urth needs a new sun.

Science Fiction Books for Teens & Young Adults

Discover captivating science fiction books for teens & young adults. From thrilling series to standalone novels suitable reads for 12 to 15-year-olds.

1. Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories

Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories by Isaac Asimov


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Book Review: Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories by Isaac Asimov 

This short fiction work covers almost everything you can imagine about robots: How do robots fit into human society? How does it affect human society? Is there a need for respect, understanding, and care for robots? 

In a society where humanoid robots develop, how do define people, and how do define the boundaries between humans and robots? What threats do robots pose to humans? What are the contributions of robots to humans? 

These works were created in the 1940s to the 1970s because the classic scenes in them are quoted from various films and television games, children now read a lot of pages with a feeling of deja vu, less amazing for a moment, but the robot proposed by the author Learning the three laws is a very good theme for children to exercise multi-dimensional thinking. 

For example, Rule 1: Robots must not harm humans, so when robots face two hostile humans who harm each other, who should they protect? hurt who? The two novellas collected at the end of this book are the essence of the author's thoughts. If children have limited time, they can be read first.

"Asimov: The Complete Stories", the most complete collection of robot short stories by "the father of modern robotics fiction" Asimov, a classic masterpiece that has inspired countless science fiction writers and Hollywood movies. Each article challenges the readers' thinking limit with the wonderful creativity of extreme genius.

These are two of my favorite stories. Part 1: It's about a little boy and his robot dog. The little boy likes to play with the robot dog very much. 

His parents want to give him a real puppy, but he would rather keep the robot dog. It can be felt from the photos that some people have a prejudice against robots and think that their performance is not real, but hypocritical. 

A paragraph at the end of the film is very meaningful: this little robot dog, since its appearance, has never been held so tightly by anyone. At this time, it makes a high-pitched, rapid squeak, a happy squeak. 

Part 2: The previous part is the first part of the whole book and this part is the last part of the whole book. This story tells the story of a robot named Andrew. 

Andrew lives with a family who loves robots and exchanges his freedom here, transforming himself into a human-like robot step by step. In the end, he became a recognized human being. I love the last paragraph, but it's too long so I won't read it here, I hope you read that book when you read it. goodbye.

2. Foundation and Empire  

Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov



Book Review: Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov

Humans live in a small corner of the Milky Way - the solar system, on the third planet, revolving around the sun, for more than 100,000 years. 

Human beings established more than 200 different administrative regions (they call "country") on this small planet (they call it "Earth") until the first thinking robot was born on Earth. 

With the help of robots, human beings quickly mastered the technology of transforming alien planets, and started a magnificent interstellar colonization movement; human beings multiply and expand like locusts in the galaxy, with their indelible ignorance and wisdom, greed and conscience, onboard one by one desolate planet, 

and the galaxy was involved in the long interstellar warring states era until the entire galaxy was unified, and a huge empire that ruled over 25 million inhabited planets, spanned 100,000 light-years, and a total of trillions of people rose. - Galactic Empire. 

A subtle twist takes place in 12020 after the Galactic Empire was founded. Harry Seldon, a young mathematician who just turned 32, created "psychohistory", a discipline that can accurately deduce the future of all mankind using mathematical formulas - "prophecy" has since become a science that can be trusted. 

From this, you can see the future. Seldon's first prophecy was that, without warning, the 12,000-year-old Galactic Empire was about to perish. 

For a time, the galaxy shook and the empire was shaken; emperors, prime ministers, power grabbers, rebellious planets, and all forces immediately drew swords, and the greatest legend of the human galaxy era began...

3. Lord of Light

They call the Buddha Maitreya, which means King of Light, and some people continue to call him the Great God Immeasurable Sam, saying that he is a god, but he still prefers to drop the "Immeasurable" and "Great God" and call himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god, but he certainly never denied it. 

In such a situation, neither acknowledgment nor denial is beneficial. Death and light are always everywhere. They begin, end, accompany, and overcome each other. 

They enter a nameless dream, cling to that dream, and burn words in reincarnation, perhaps just to create a little beauty. And this nameless is our world. "King of Light" is Zelazny's most famous sci-fi epic. 

It caused a sensation when it came out. It won the Hugo Award for Best Novel and was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel. In this novel, Zelazny pioneered the introduction of myths and legends and the concepts of psychology and sociology into the field of science fiction. 

With magnificent words, grand settings, and majestic storylines, it opened the door to science fiction literature. A whole new world. The perfect collector's edition! Attached is the foreword written by George RR Martin, author of "A Song of Ice and Fire", and the interpretation written by Liu Cixin, author of "Three-Body Problem".

4. A Fire Upon The Deep

A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge


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Book Review: A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge

Writing a book review is always a difficult task because it is too easy to be swayed by the preferences of your own supervisors. Words are farther and farther away from the author's true intentions, and they also cut off the possibility of communicating with other readers.

This is a great book and makes me want to do some tiny work. The prologue of the book is extremely persuasive, but reading the whole book and rereading the prologue will feel wonderful. A little summary is made to enhance your reading experience.

Let's look at it from "A Fire Upon The Deep". The main boundaries mentioned in the text are There are only 4 areas in the area, the abyss of zero consciousness, the crawling world, the leaping world, and the super-boundary. But the text actually repeatedly implies (even directly stated) that there is still room for higher civilization above the super-boundary. 

And although the boundary area mentions 4, it really works There are only three of them. It is the leaping world where the story takes place, the crawling world at the next level, and the transboundary world at a higher level. And the abyss of zero consciousness, which is two levels away from the story stage, is already too "far away" to "see it." 

At the same time, the interface above the super limit is too far to be seen. But the text has clearly stated his existence. Guess from the civilization of the Feiyue world level, it should be the cloud world, and the wisdom in it is called the man in the cloud.

However, book reviews are indeed a highly subjective thing. Work is a grand existence. Everyone has their own entry point and their own perspective, and the conclusions and evaluations they draw vary widely. 

Just like this book, some people think it is a masterpiece of space opera, but some people think it can't be regarded as a space opera at all; some people are fascinated by the setting of claw creatures, and some people prefer the grand narrative of space civilization; some people think it is blunt and difficult Read, some people are stunned... There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people, and it has always been so.

5. Neuromancer

Book Review: Neuromancer by William Gibson

William Gibson wrote the science fiction novel Neuromancer in 1983. The status and influence of this novel can be explained in many ways, but one of the simplest terms is that this is a novel that can be sold in slices. 

As big as the main idea of the novel, as small as the image set of the heroine in the novel, the memories of the past with a few lines, and the idea of a mechanical lock, they can all be sold separately for money for people to create new science fiction or The script is made into a separate and complete film.

Most science fiction fans are somewhat aware of the background of "Neuromancer" and its author William Gibson. As the bible of Cyberpunk, "Neuromancer" opens up a new subculture, making people more aware of the penetration of machines into human life, a kind of indifference and alienation in the process of alienation, a kind of indifference to the mainstream Questioning and betrayal of values and authority. 

"Nervous Caller" also pulls the creation of science fiction from a space theater that focuses on the boundless universe and has already appeared exhausted, to an electronic world that focuses on the future of the Internet and the relationship between humans and machines.

Most of the science fiction novels I read are good at telling stories. But "Neuromancer" no, its story is outrageously simple: in the future, a self-aware artificial intelligence, in order to gain freedom, hires a hacker + a female killer + a special forces officer + a consciousness manipulation expert. 

To steal a key and get a password. It's really an adventure story with nothing new, and it's not "what happened next" that drives me to read.

What drives me to read is curiosity. The author is very "bad", shattering that world, and it is scattered in every action of the "quad", I am like a collector when I see something worthwhile, I will take it over, and gradually, the puzzle is complete, and the world appears. 

This is really my favorite way of writing. I have to put all my heart into it, grope between the lines, and I can't miss a piece. I feel very involved. When you're done, you still have a sense of achievement. 

The only trouble is that it takes a lot of brains. After reading it for the second time, I finally have the confidence to talk about the bizarre world behind "Neuromancer", which was covered with gauze by Gibson.

6. Mona Lisa Overdrive

Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson



Book Review: Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson

William Gibson, the author of the extraordinary multi-award-winning 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 the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace. 

Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense /Net star Angie Mitchell. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. 

Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled . . . or even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy, powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes.
"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." -- Chapter 1 of Neuromancer
"..., But Slick knew from experience that it was easier not to interrupt him; the trick was in pulling some kind of meaning out of the overall flow, skipping over the parts you didn't understand." --Mona Lisa Overdrive Chapter 21 of The Aleph
William Gibson wrote the above passage on Mona Lisa Overdrive as if to describe the feelings many readers feel when reading the Sprawl trilogy. Gibson's narrative is relatively loose, and the prose is more casual. 

Coupled with the multi-line narrative structure starting from Count Zero, it is easy for readers to lose sight of one another and forget some previous details while reading, which is not conducive to readers' understanding of Gibson's construction of the plot. attentiveness. 

Gibson's style is minimalist. I personally like his writing a lot, and I think he does a very good job of description and atmosphere rendering, which is very prominent among science fiction writers. 

Perhaps Gibson's prominence among science fiction writers is what Raymond Chandler was for speculative novelists. 

I think just a few dozen words have perfectly laid out the atmosphere of Cyberpunk. Bravely speaking, this beginning is like the beginning of One Hundred Years of Solitude, which belongs to the Cyberpunk novel.

7. Warriors #1: Into the Wild

Book Review: Warriors #1: Into the Wild by Erin Hunter

Fire alone can save our clan... For generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by their warrior ancestors. But the ThunderClan cats are in grave danger, and the sinister ShadowClan grows stronger every day. 

Noble warriors are dying -- and some deaths are more mysterious than others. In the midst of this turmoil appears an ordinary house cat named Rusty . . . who may turn out to be the bravest warrior of them all.

The story of a house cat fighting a pack of feral cats. Should be a good children's book, I'm probably long past the age to be drawn to children's books. The author's description of cats is very delicate. 

I am curious whether the author has raised a lot of cats and has a rich imagination to make up such a story. I read this book because an 11-year-old American kid gave it to me. I was embarrassed to refuse it, so I just read it. 

Curiosity stirred me to read this book. It was interesting and filled with a lot of new words. 

The story was made up of fights among various cat clans, ThunderClan, WindClan, ShadowClan, and RiverClan. It even reflected the sort of humanity of human beings.

But I'd really like my kids to read this book in the future, it's much better than Twilight and the like. Teach children responsibility, loyalty, and courage, and the plot content is also very suitable for children. 

The storyline is also engaging and makes one want to keep reading but feel like he won't take the time to read the next few books.

8. The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents

Book Review: The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents by Terry Pratchett

This book has been picked up by the little peacock who loves magic and cats since last year. The promotion is very strong. It dares to compete with "Harry Potter" and "The Lord of the Rings", and there is excessive publicity. 

The story tells the adventures of a cunning but kind cat and a group of timid but brave mice. The author uses the fairy tale of mouse mutation as a metaphor for various phenomena in human society: gang politics, hypocrisy, greed, war, cruelty, racial issues, philosophical thinking, etc. It is not just a story for children. 

The author Terry Pratchett, in The Cat and the Mouse, gives readers a preliminary understanding of the evolutionary history of human beings, from mechanically relying on instinct, purely for survival, to learning to think, inventing words, considering records and inheritance, how cooperation and negotiation are the first wonderful things The emergence of, how to do fear and courage affect the psychology and behavior of rats (or us). 

seemingly simple stories, but always make people stop thinking: How do we recover from the chaos? How can we use courage to drive out fear in our hearts? Why is breaking a habit so hard to accept? How many stumbling and stumbling will be experienced when the new order is formed... 

All this makes the story of Terry Pratchett take on a whole new meaning, the most important of which is: Who are we? Where are we going? 

These two problems that have troubled people for a long time have been ignored by many confused people, and they are also pursued by many people who get to the bottom of it. When we think about this, it's when we make history.

9. Ender's Game

Book Review: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card 

The world is about to be destroyed. The threat comes from another civilization. They outnumbered humans in numbers, technology, and strategy, destroying nearly all human fleets in the first and second reconnaissance encounters. 

Today, the third Zerg invasion is imminent, and the Earth fleet has yet to find any possibility of resistance. The world is about to end. The last savior of mankind is a six-year-old child - Ender

Ender's Game can be found on the shelves of almost any bookstore in the world. This has nothing to do with its brilliant award-winning record and best-selling miracle, just because it is really good-looking. 

It is a science fiction novel with children as the mainline. The protagonist in the movie is a teenage boy, but in the book, he is really only six years old. I'm going to add Ender's shadow and the spokesperson of the deceased! 

I have finished watching the Ender trilogy, and I watched the movie again today, but my son said that he forgot all about it, which is equivalent to watching the movie all over again. But while watching it, I recalled many plots. My son kept looking for differences and said that the movie cut out a lot of content! 

10. The Miracles of the Namiya General Store

Book Review: The Miracles of the Namiya General Store by Keigo Higashino

The Miracles of the Namiya General Store can help you find what is lost in the hearts of modern people - there is a grocery store next to a secluded street, as long as you write down your troubles and put them into the mailbox of the rolling door, it will be in the milk crate behind the store the next day. get an answer. 

Because her boyfriend is terminally ill, the young girl Shizuko is wandering between love and dreams; Krona wanders away from home for her music dream, but in reality, it is impossible to move; the teenager Kosuke is facing great changes in his family, struggling in the confusion of his family and future... 

They wrote the confusion as The letter was dropped into the grocery store, and then wonderful things kept happening. How will a chance encounter in life lead to a completely different life? 

Looking back on the writing process now, I find that I have always been thinking about a question: at a fork in life, what should people do? I want readers to mutter to themselves as they close the book: I have never read a novel like this. - Keigo Higashino. 

After reading this novel, I can't hide my excitement. Each of the consulting characters in the play is facing an important crossroads in their lives. If I put myself into it, I don't think I have the courage to do so. I really need an old man like a worry-relieving grocery store to help me relieve my worries. 

Although facing an extraordinary moment of a turning point in life, the author describes it lightly, as ordinary as getting up and brushing teeth every day, ordinary is extraordinary, ordinary is like we face such a choice every day. 

There are even more dialogues than descriptions (perhaps this is the director of the Japanese writer?), the ingenious echoes of the events before and after, the design structure of the whole story, and the characters who seem to be unwilling to do it are intertwined at the resurrection night of the dilapidated grocery store, confusing. 

I have to say that a good author is not only a wonderful pen on paper, but also the control and modification of words may be part of it. The idea of the whole story and the theme to be discussed is the souls. Reading such a book, 

The author seems to be by his side. How thrilling will the finale event be that I often wonder about during the reading process? Until the end, I had to sigh at its intentions.

11. The Giver

Book Review: The Giver by Lois Lowry

This is a very famous set. Many children of Huayou's family have read it. I think since it is a book for teenagers, my son should also be able to read it. The protagonist is a 12-year-old boy who lives in a 'perfect world' in the future, a world without color, music, memory, and emotion. 

It is hard to say whether these things that they consider useless are automatically given up or deprived of them. 

As soon as everyone was born, their future life and work were arranged. The elders believed that aliens or useless people would be 'liberated', but the 'liberation' that everyone was curious about was actually executed. 

The male protagonist is assigned as a memory giver, he is responsible for bearing all the memories, when he discovers the beauty of the real world and the cruelty of the world he lives in, he decides to escape from it... 

I'm afraid that there are some contents in the book that my son can't accept, so I don't recommend him to watch it, but before he can say it, he has already finished it. However it is estimated that the book is not his style, so I did not continue to read the last three books. The movie of the same name was released in 2014. 

12. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Book Review: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

I recommend this novel online. It is said to be one of the 50 favorite novels by teenagers. My son is almost eleven, and it is time for him to read some books for teenagers. Or based on the principle of reviewing the book first, I will read it first. 

The cover is a horror picture, and the color makes people feel scared. After reading it several times, I found out that the girl's feet were off the ground, and I was startled again. I have always wondered in my heart, how this kind of horror story by the favorite literary work of teenagers, is because teenagers are too curious? 

After reading a few chapters, I found that the plot became more and more familiar. It turned out that the movie "Miss Pei's Fantasy Castle" was adapted from this novel! Hey, I put my heart down, it turned out to be a sci-fi and magic story. It started out with the horror story of the protagonist and his grandfather. 

The male protagonist is a wealthy child with excellent studies. After he met his grandfather, he saw something that others could not see and was frightened and sick. 

Later, people in the town thought the male protagonist was crazy. Later, the grandfather died mysteriously, and the police thought it was an accident, but the male protagonist didn't think so... He received a letter from his grandfather, so he embarked on his fantasy journey! 

In addition, Miss Bird and the home that the male protagonist is looking for were said to have been bombed during World War II, but 15 years ago, his grandfather received a letter from Miss Bird again. 

What happened? I don't want to spoil anything, let's read together! The movie is very good, I feel that the style of painting is more in line with the author's original intention, it should be said that it is more in line with my taste!

13. Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Book Review: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

It is 451 degrees Fahrenheit. The name of the book is named after the temperature value. This temperature is the ignition point of the book. It is conceivable that it is a story related to books. What kind of story will the combination of books and fire be? It makes people curious. Boom!

        In the future world, books are forbidden, and reading books is a crime. The job of firefighters in that world is not to put out fires but to burn books, and it is their duty to burn all the books in that world! 

So there are some book lovers who memorize the books and pass them on by word of mouth so that the books can be preserved and passed down in another way.

        The male protagonist is a loyal firefighter who has also dutifully burned books and those who break the law. But then he met a girl, and his outlook on life slowly began to change. He discovered that the book wasn't a deceiving story, but another, more wonderful world, so...

        A fascinating story and thought-provoking! Suitable for children to read.

14. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams


The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

  • New York Times Bestseller
  • Nominated by PBS The Great American Read
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" is a science fiction novel by Douglas Adams. The earth was destroyed because of the need to build a hyperspace fast track where it was. 

The protagonist Arthur Dent survived because he had a friend named Officer Ford. On the surface, this friend was an actor who couldn't find a job, but he was actually an alien. 

He was a researcher sent to the earth by the famous book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". The two began an adventure across the galaxy, and only the infinite wisdom included in the book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" can help them. 

During the journey, they met a group of very interesting companions, these characters formed a small team, and they revealed a terrifying big secret.

15. The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins


The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins 

  • Swept the "New York Times", "USA Today", "Wall Street Times", "Publisher Weekly", Amazon Online Bookstore, American Independent Bookstore (Indie), and other best-seller lists, authorized 39 countries and regions around the world.
  • "The Hunger Games" topped the "New York Times" bestseller list, with 1,200,000 copies released in 66 weeks.
  • 2008 Cybils Youth Fantasy and Science Fiction Award
  • "Publisher Weekly" "Book of the Year"
  • "New York Times" "The Most Notable Book of the Year" "Book Review Editor's Choice"
  • American Library Association "Ten Works First Selected by Teenagers"
  • "School Library Journal" "Book of the Year"
  • 2008-2009 Winter Youth Books Ranking
  • Amazon Online Bookstore "Book of the Year" "Editor's Choice Top 100"
  • Barnes & Noble "Book of the Year"
While reading this book, I also read another seemingly unrelated book "Financial Empire". But in fact, the connection between the two books goes far beyond what I can share:

There are too many metaphors behind "The Hunger Games". In the international economic and financial system actually operated and controlled by the United States, as an actual "empire", The United States establishes all the rules that are beneficial to itself, forcing all countries to pay for their country's cheap and high-quality resources and products, and they will never allow any developing countries to really develop. 

because if the people of these countries have stronger consumption Abilities, the United States can no longer profit from unequal trade. All the foreign policies of the United States are exactly the same as the Capital in "The Hunger Games", only the form is different, and the essence is completely the same, each country is each country. It's just an area that provides resources or products for it.

The author's age may have been greatly affected by the Cold War, so the 13th district should be a projection of the former Soviet Union. In fact, present Russia is no longer the situation of the 13th district. 

The young people in the United States inciting Russia are like the 13th district inciting others. It is the same as the region, except that it is difficult for the Russian people to understand how the so-called liberal democracy they have learned from the outside world will affect their country.

Of course, it can't be said that "The Hunger Games" is purely a product of the Cold War, but the final fate of the hero and heroine is just an escape from the helpless reality, although such a realistic love story is valuable for literary works.

16. A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle


A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

  Newbury Gold Medal Prize for Children's Literature, the first book in the "Time Quintet" series, author Madeleine Inge won the International Andersen Prize. This book is known to almost everyone in the United States. 

This is about the young Meg Murray and her brother Charles Wallace on a journey to the universe to find missing research time travel The story of his father.

  Little girl McGonagall has a special family. Her dearest father disappeared while studying the five-dimensional space. Three people live in a haunted house: Mrs. Worcester, Mrs. Pot, and Mrs. Weiqu. They know the whereabouts of Dad. 

So, in the middle of the night, McGonagall, his younger brother, and his classmate Calvin, who was a few years older than them, and these three mysterious and friendly alien angels began a magical, dangerous, and tortuous way to find family together. 

The way they travel is not through airplanes, rockets, or time shuttles, but through the magical folds of time, called latitude jumps. They enter from a plane and come out to stand on another distant planet.

  This book is full of love, tolerance, understanding, family, and friendship. The stories of three strange children are written to children and everyone. 

17. Dune

Dune by Frank Herbert


Dune by Frank Herbert

  • "Dune" is the legendary masterpiece of the great science fiction writer Frank Herbert.
  • "Sand Dunes" is on every "must-read of life" booklist
  • U.S. book e-commerce "100 books you must read in a lifetime"
  • BBC "100 Books Loved by All the British"
  • National Public Radio "Science Fiction and Fantasy TOP100"
  • Won the title of "Outstanding Science Fiction Novel of the 20th Century" by "Track" magazine
  • The first work to win both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award, a must-read classic in the history of science fiction
  • Popular around the world for more than half a century, global sales have exceeded 12 million copies
The position of "Dune" in science fiction literature is just like the position of "The Lord of the Rings" in fantasy literature. Frank Herbert is an extremely influential American science fiction master and a master alongside Asimov.

"Dune" was adapted into "Dune 2000", the originator of the world-renowned real-time strategy game. The resulting "Red Alert" and "StarCraft" have become a must-have item on almost every computer, giving birth to "Planet". Classic sci-fi movies such as "The Great War" and "Avatar". (See detailed in Book Review category)

18. I, Robot

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov


I, Robot by Isaac Asimov

"I, Robot", and "The Three Laws of Robotics" come from this book. The original movie of the 2004 Hollywood science-fiction blockbuster "I, Robot".

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), a Russian-American writer, was praised by readers all over the world as a "god-like man"; the US government awarded him the unique "miracle of national resources and nature" The title in recognition of his outstanding contribution to "expanding human imagination".

The "three laws of robotics" he put forward are the basic laws of contemporary robotics. He predicted today's biotechnology, predicted the digital library in the Internet age, and predicted that humans will colonize space.

19. The Martian Chronicles

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury


The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

"The Martian Chronicles" is a famous work by contemporary science fiction master Ray Bradbury. It consists of a series of beautiful brushwork, fantastic imagination, and gothic fantasy Short story composition. At the turn of the century, the earth was perilous and full of an apocalyptic atmosphere. 

Mars has become the last hope of mankind. Although the first three groups of explorers died at the hands of mysterious Martians, humans still succeeded. 

In the unfamiliar red land, they met the "derailed" Martian woman and the jealous husband, the Martian who is proficient in telepathy and disguise, and the murderous castle of Usher in the grand carnival. Two strangers are twisting Spiritual encounters in time and space... 

The poetic and eerie Chronicles of Mars is actually a prosperous and declining history of human civilization, reflecting the fears and desires in the depths of human nature, which makes people uncomfortable to read. 

The romanticism of science fiction has been perfectly embodied in it. In 2012, NASA named the landing site of "Curiosity" on Mars "Bradbury Landing Site" to pay tribute to the master of science fiction.

20. Divergent

Divergent by Veronica Roth


Divergent by Veronica Roth

The first part of "The Divergent" has long been ranked first among teenagers' books on Amazon online bookstore in the United States, and the second part has been ranked third among teenagers' books on Amazon online bookstore in the United States after its release!

In the future of Chicago, after years of war and suffering, in order to rebuild order, mankind divided society into five factions: Dauntless, Erudite, Candor, Abnegation, and Amity. The five factions each perform their duties and harmoniously form a so-called perfect society. People hope that this will bring about a new utopian peace.

In this society, every person who has reached the age of 16 must undergo a tendency test, understand the sect he is suitable for, and personally make a choice concerning the future at the sect selection ceremony. But there is another kind of people, they don't belong to any faction, where will their destiny go...

21. The 5th Wave

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey


The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

I thought the overall plot could be executed better if the author made fewer twists in the middle of the chapters. There is way too much back-and-forth between Cassie and Evan regarding how she looks at him. If the writing is already exaggerated so be fewer twists.

Another point is there is a lot of slang that cost me a decent amount of time to crack every time, though the author does use the same bunch of slang if you read on. Apparent typos too, the most obvious ones being misused by ' it is.

Overall the book handles pretty well a creepy theme unmatched by recent other Si-Fi books. The atmosphere is lonely and eerie. Sometimes when I read through the lead roles' mediation I imagine how I might end up in such a scenario. 

The beginning and the ending are particularly well narrated which keeps you reading nonstop. Alternate POV description throughout most of the book between Cassie and Ben provides us with parallel storylines that are so much more enjoyable.

22. Matched

Matched by Ally Condie


Matched by Ally Condie

On her seventeenth birthday, Cassia meets her Match. Society dictates he is her perfect partner for life. Except he's not. In Cassia's society, Officials decide who people love. How many children do they have? 

Where they work. When they die. But, as Cassia finds herself falling in love with another boy, she is determined to make some choices of her own. And that's when her whole world begins to unravel...

The female protagonist just doesn’t know what to do. The book’s settings are also utopian in the future. Everyone should do what they are at their age. The community will plan for the female protagonist. 

When he reaches 17 he will know who to marry, and the man will be invincible to her. It's so handsome, but she has to be with others. This book itself can cause a lot of thinking, but if you look down on the hostess of the green tea bitch, don't read it and it will be annoying.

23. Warcross

Warcross by Marie Lu


Warcross by Marie Lu

 “I don’t want to be your enemy,” he says quietly. “But I’m going to do this, with or without you.”

Now, why do I feel like I’ve read that someone before? Oh, fight, every book ever where it turns out the super-hot handsome guy/woman, turns out to be the actual guy, and that the person trying to stop turns out to actually be a good guy. 

It is even like the end of Legend for those of you who have read it will know what I mean, though it is not worded exactly. It also reminded me greatly of Ready-Player One(though I have only seen the film and not read the book, even though I really should).

Nonetheless,  despite my little complaints about the book, I did really enjoy it.  Everything is actually pretty cool and the characters were interesting enough. It is a bit longer than Legend and I feel that this book has a bit more dialogue and talking between the characters, which is fine by me. 

It’s a pretty cool sci-fi young adult thriller that is moderately fast-paced (so, fast-paced, but not dazzlingly quick) set in an interesting world.

I did finish this one in a little over a  Day(get it?) and much like a Legend, the plot did feel really predictable, though there’s nothing necessarily wrong with anything with the reader being able to guess everything, maybe the next book with change that?

This is a fairly short review on a fairly short book, but  I’ll be reading the next one now and I’ll see what I have to say on that one, though I do see it lower rated. 7.5/10.

24. Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

The plot probably means that the heroine moved to a new home in LA after getting married. Suddenly one day when she was sorting the bookshelves, she found that she had traveled through time. Back in the 19th century (the 1800s), she met a child who was drowning and rescued him. 

However, in America in the 19th century, blacks had not yet been completely liberated (the hostess was black), whites had absolute rights, and blacks could only be slaves. 

Well, that's the general situation, and then the various absurd things encountered by the hostess when she shuttles between modern times and the past... (Because the characters in it will involve spoilers as soon as they are explained, I will not go into details.)

Well, how can I say it, when I first read it, I felt very embarrassed because my first impression should be a relatively " "Normal" story. After reading the prologue, I didn't know what she was talking about. I didn't understand the main idea of the story until I finished the first chapter. Sometimes the beginning of the flashback is still confusing. 

In addition, the vocabulary in this book is easier to understand. At least it doesn’t matter if you jump over a word you don’t understand. Anyway, you will know what happens after you see it. The plot layout is also good, and it is said that a movie was made, but I think the ending is a bit hasty, it may be an intriguing ending, and I don’t understand it. . .

In short, for a beginner like me, this book is still worth reading, at least it won't make it boring to fall asleep.

25. The Martian

This is a typical and novel story of the struggle between humans and nature. Because Bey's earth adventure can no longer satisfy stupid human readers, the author sets the scene on the absolutely deserted red planet Mars.

This book was written in 2009. The author, Andy Weir, is a Nerd. At first, he serialized the novel on his website for free reading. Later, some readers suggested that he put it on Amazon.com for $0.99 so that readers could get it. Reading on Kindle. 

As a result, the electronic version of the novel sold 3,500 copies in 3 months, and it took the top spot on Amazon.com's 2014 science fiction bestseller list.

In this story, the protagonist Watney is the only "person" of the Martian. Watney is a member of NASA's Mars expedition. During a mission, the team encountered a Martian dust storm. 

Watney was stabbed in the abdomen by an antenna fragment and separated from his teammates. Seeing that Watney was having difficulty surviving, the captain made a decisive move to lead the rest of the team back. So the protagonist who survived was left on Mars and started a fight with cruel nature.

Just as Mark was preparing to set off, Pathfinder was burnt out by the electric current due to a mistake in using the electric drill. He lost contact with the earth. Only when he reached the return capsule of Ares 4 could he directly talk to the Earth.

On Earth, experts are discussing nervously. Because a dust storm is generated and raging on Mars, it will seriously affect the power of solar cells and delay Mark's pace. Will he be able to reach Ares 4's return capsule in time?

The lesson of this story: For each Mars mission, the landing site should be closer, so that all resources can support each other and make full use of it.

Conclusion: Easy Sci-Fi Reads for First-Timers, Teens & Young Adults

We carefully selected the above high-quality science fiction novels for everyone. 

These works have attracted many science fiction lovers with their unique imaginations, fascinating plots, and wonderful world backgrounds. 

If you are interested in science fiction, these works are not to be missed. It is recommended to save them for future reading.

If you like the editor's recommendation, please collect it and follow it so that I can recommend more sci-fi books next time. Thank you!

Exploring the Best Sci-Fi

Remember, these are just a few suggestions to get you started. There's a vast and diverse world of science fiction waiting to be explored!

Dystopian:

  • The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
  • Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
  • Uglies (Scott Westerfeld)
  • Matched (Ally Condie)
  • Feed (Matthew Iden)
  • Divergent (Veronica Roth)
  • The Giver (Lois Lowry)
  • Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
  • Unwind (Neal Shusterman)
  • The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)

Space Opera:

  • Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)
  • A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle)
  • Illuminae (Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff)
  • The Martian (Andy Weir)
  • The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (Becky Chambers)
  • Children of Time (Adrian Tchaikovsky)
  • Skyward (Brandon Sanderson)
  • Artemis (Andy Weir)
  • Perilous Landing (Elizabeth Moon)
  • A Fire Upon the Deep (Vernor Vinge)

Young Adult:

  • The Maze Runner (James Dashner)
  • Legend (Marie Lu)
  • The 5th Wave (Rick Yancey)
  • I Am Number Four (Pittacus Lore)
  • The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury)
  • The Lunar Chronicles (Marissa Meyer)
  • The Chaos Walking Trilogy (Patrick Ness)
  • This Is How I Lied (Heather Demetrios)
  • The Girl with All the Gifts (M.R. Carey)
  • The Archived (Victoria Schwab)

Science Fiction Classics:

  • 1984 (George Orwell)
  • Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
  • Dune (Frank Herbert)
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick)
  • The Left Hand of Darkness (Ursula K. Le Guin)
  • A Princess of Mars (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
  • The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
  • Childhood's End (Arthur C. Clarke)
  • I Robot (Isaac Asimov)
  • The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury)

Time Travel:

  • Kindred by Octavia Butler
  • The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
  • Replay by Ken Grimwood 

Other Sub-genres:

  • Starship Troopers (Robert A. Heinlein) (Military Science Fiction)
  • Neuromancer (William Gibson) (Cyberpunk)
  • The Man in the High Castle (Philip K. Dick) (Alternate History)
  • The Andromeda Strain (Michael Crichton) (Technothriller)
  • Amnesia Moon (Elizabeth Moon) (Space Opera/Romance)
  • The Calculating Stars (Mary Robinette Kowal) (Alternate History/Romance)
  • The Martian Chronicles (Ray Bradbury) (Dystopian/Short Stories)
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams) (Humorous Science Fiction)
  • The Martian (Andy Weir) (Science Fiction/Survival)
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