Prompts

What are your favorite science fiction books of all time?

Science fiction as a genre includes a wide range of topics. From imaginative and futuristic concepts to space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life and more. What stand out as some of your all-time favorites in this genre?

The Martian

#1 of 1 in The Martian

2011 • 3,958 Readers • 384 pages 4.4

Dune

#1 of 9 in Dune

1965 • 5,834 Readers • 704 pages 4.3

Hyperion

#1 of 4 in Hyperion Cantos

1989 • 2,224 Readers • 492 pages 4.3

Ender's Game

#1 of 6 in Ender's Saga

1985 • 3,195 Readers • 256 pages 4.3

Dark Matter

2016 • 2,862 Readers • 340 pages 4

Project Hail Mary

2021 • 4,848 Readers • 496 pages 4.4

The Murderbot Diaries #1-4: : All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy

#1-4 of 7 in The Murderbot Diaries

2019 • 29 Readers • 576 pages 4.3

Neuromancer

#1 of 3 in Sprawl

1984 • 2,302 Readers • 271 pages 3.8

Wool

#1 of 3 in Silo

2011 • 1,621 Readers • 592 pages 4.1

The Left Hand of Darkness

#4 of 18 in Hainish Cycle

1969 • 1,646 Readers • 267 pages 4.1

Brave New World

1900 • 3,777 Readers • 332 pages 3.9

Leviathan Wakes

#1 of 10 in The Expanse

2011 • 2,519 Readers • 621 pages 4.2

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

1968 • 2,149 Readers • 223 pages 3.9

The Dark Forest

#2 of 4 in Remembrance of Earth's Past

2008 • 1,364 Readers • 400 pages 4.3

Parable of the Sower

#1 of 2 in Earthseed

1993 • 1,558 Readers • 350 pages 4.1

Red Rising

#1 of 6 in Red Rising Saga

2014 • 3,487 Readers • 382 pages 4.1

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

#1 of 4 in Wayfarers

2014 • 1,818 Readers • 423 pages 4.1

Frankenstein

2 Barron's Graphic Classics

-800 • 3,245 Readers • 353 pages 3.9

Snow Crash

1992 • 1,888 Readers • 448 pages 4

The Time Machine

3 Saddleback Classics

1894 • 1,504 Readers • 144 pages 3.7

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

#1 of 6 in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

1979 • 4,537 Readers • 215 pages 4.2

Ancillary Justice

#1 of 5 in Imperial Radch

2013 • 1,207 Readers • 416 pages 4

The Sparrow

#1 of 2 in The Sparrow

1996 • 650 Readers • 515 pages 4

Annihilation

#1 of 4 in Southern Reach

2014 • 1,998 Readers • 208 pages 3.7

Burning Chrome

#0 of 3 in Sprawl

1981 • 300 Readers • 191 pages 3.8

Iron Widow

#1 of 2 in Iron Widow

2021 • 989 Readers • 394 pages 4

This Is How You Lose the Time War

2019 • 2,915 Readers • 223 pages 3.9

Artemis Fowl

#1 of 8 in Artemis Fowl

2000 • 857 Readers • 422 pages 3.7

The Robots of Dawn

#3 of 4 in Robot

1958 • 286 Readers • 449 pages 4

Heir to the Empire

#1 of 3 in Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy

1991 • 561 Readers • 528 pages 4

A Canticle for Leibowitz

#1 of 2 in St. Leibowitz

1959 • 791 Readers • 334 pages 3.9

Flowers for Algernon

19 • 2,123 Readers • 311 pages 4.3

Station Eleven

2014 • 2,262 Readers • 333 pages 4.1

Eye in the Sky

1957 • 36 Readers • 255 pages 3.8

LoveStar

2002 • 18 Readers • 320 pages 4.4

Briardark

#1 of 2 in Briardark

2023 • 65 Readers • 362 pages 3.6

Theories of Flight

#2 of 3 in Samuil Petrovitch

2011 • 15 Readers • 238 pages 4.1

Aurora: CV-01

#1 of 15 in The Frontiers Saga (Part 1): Discovery

2011 • 45 Readers • 301 pages 3.9

Cover 8

#1-3 of 12 in Omega Force

2013 • 4 Readers 3.7

Men Like Gods

1923 • 16 Readers • 230 pages 4

Hit Parade of Tears

2023 • 44 Readers • 289 pages 3.8

The Moonday Letters

2022 • 28 Readers • 417 pages 4.5

Universal War One

#1 of 1 in Universal War One

2002 • 4 Readers • 144 pages 4.3

Sword & Citadel

#3 of 5 in The Book of the New Sun

1982 • 113 Readers • 411 pages 4.3

Slated

#1 of 3 in Slated

2012 • 61 Readers • 439 pages 3.8

A Memory Called Empire

#1 of 2 in Teixcalaan

2019 • 1,315 Readers • 464 pages 4.1

Stories of Your Life and Others

2002 • 1,084 Readers • 281 pages 4.3

Abduction

2000 • 14 Readers • 416 pages 3.8

Contact

1985 • 737 Readers • 453 pages 4.1

Foundation

#1 of 8 in Foundation (Publication Order)

1951 • 2,368 Readers • 255 pages 4

I, Robot

#0.1 of 4 in Robot

1950 • 1,509 Readers • 304 pages 4

Recursion

2005 • 1,931 Readers • 329 pages 4.2

The Many-Colored Land

#1 of 6 in Saga of the Pliocene Exile

1981 • 23 Readers • 433 pages 3.9

Ubik

1969 • 721 Readers • 285 pages 4

Robot Visions

#0.5 of 4 in Robot

1990 • 59 Readers • 384 pages 3.9

Roadside Picnic

1972 • 689 Readers • 226 pages 4

1984

1949 • 7,284 Readers • 328 pages 4.2

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

#1 of 1 in Fractalverse

2020 • 908 Readers • 880 pages 3.6

The Forever War

#1 of 2 in The Forever War

1974 • 1,005 Readers • 203 pages 4

The Time Traveler's Wife

2003 • 1,370 Readers • 522 pages 3.9

Dark Age

#5 of 6 in Red Rising Saga

2019 • 742 Readers • 800 pages 4.4

Exhalation

2019 • 1,151 Readers • 350 pages 4.3

Too Like the Lightning

#1 of 4 in Terra Ignota

2016 • 477 Readers • 448 pages 3.8

Luna: Nów

#1 of 7 in Luna

2015 • 205 Readers • 432 pages 3.5

The Accidental Time Machine

2007 • 78 Readers • 278 pages 3.6

The Peripheral

#1 of 2 in Jackpot

2014 • 436 Readers • 486 pages 3.8

Across the Universe

#1 of 3 in Across the Universe

2011 • 243 Readers • 399 pages 3.6

Empire of Silence

#1 of 6 in The Sun Eater

2018 • 1,032 Readers • 624 pages 4

Wild Seed

#1 of 7 in Patternist

1980 • 280 Readers • 306 pages 3.9

Shadow & Claw

262 Readers 4.1

Monday Starts on Saturday

#1 of 2 in НИИЧАВО

1965 • 51 Readers • 256 pages 3.6

Terminal Boredom: Stories

2021 • 95 Readers • 218 pages 3.8

Some Desperate Glory

2023 • 426 Readers • 448 pages 4

A Walk in the Dark

1950 • 3 Readers 4.5

The Stories of Ibis

2006 • 29 Readers • 422 pages 3.5

Sandkings

#7 of 4 in DC Science Fiction Graphic Novel

1979 • 57 Readers • 254 pages 4.2