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 • 3,145 Readers • 384 pages 4.4

Dune

#1 of 8 in Dune

11 • 4,689 Readers • 704 pages 4.3

Hyperion

#1 of 4 in Hyperion Cantos

1989 • 1,774 Readers • 481 pages 4.3

Ender's Game

#1 of 6 in Ender's Saga

1985 • 2,558 Readers • 256 pages 4.2

Dark Matter

2016 • 2,262 Readers • 340 pages 4

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

#1-4 of 7 in The Murderbot Diaries

2019 • 21 Readers • 576 pages 4.1

Neuromancer

#1 of 3 in Sprawl

1984 • 1,788 Readers • 271 pages 3.8

Project Hail Mary

2021 • 3,821 Readers • 496 pages 4.4

Leviathan Wakes

#1 of 9 in The Expanse

2011 • 2,026 Readers • 621 pages 4.2

Brave New World

1930 • 3,027 Readers • 332 pages 3.9

The Dark Forest

#2 of 4 in Remembrance of Earth's Past

2008 • 1,077 Readers • 400 pages 4.3

Wool

#1 of 5 in Wool

2011 • 1,225 Readers • 592 pages 4.1

The Left Hand of Darkness

#4 of 9 in Hainish Cycle

1969 • 1,314 Readers • 267 pages 4.1

Parable of the Sower

#1 of 2 in Earthseed

1993 • 1,207 Readers • 350 pages 4.2

Snow Crash

1992 • 1,493 Readers • 448 pages 3.9

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

1968 • 1,717 Readers • 223 pages 3.9

The Sparrow

#1 of 2 in The Sparrow

1996 • 544 Readers • 515 pages 4

Flowers for Algernon

19 • 1,709 Readers • 311 pages 4.3

Iron Widow

#1 of 2 in Iron Widow

2021 • 828 Readers • 394 pages 4

Annihilation

#1 of 4 in Southern Reach

2014 • 1,561 Readers • 208 pages 3.7

The Robots of Dawn

#3 of 4 in Robot

1958 • 221 Readers • 449 pages 4

Artemis Fowl

#1 of 8 in Artemis Fowl

2001 • 690 Readers • 422 pages 3.8

Frankenstein

2019 • 2 Readers • 294 pages 3.3

Burning Chrome

#0 of 3 in Sprawl

1981 • 236 Readers • 191 pages 3.8

A Canticle for Leibowitz

#1 of 2 in St. Leibowitz

1959 • 581 Readers • 334 pages 3.9

Heir to the Empire

#1 of 3 in Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy

1991 • 447 Readers • 404 pages 4.1

Red Rising

#1 of 7 in Red Rising Saga

2014 • 2,733 Readers • 382 pages 4.1

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

#1 of 4 in Wayfarers

2014 • 1,487 Readers • 423 pages 4.1

Ancillary Justice

#1 of 3 in Imperial Radch

2013 • 976 Readers • 416 pages 4

The Time Machine

1894 • 1,150 Readers • 140 pages 3.7

Universal War One

#1 of 2 in Universal War One

2002 • 3 Readers • 144 pages 4

Across the Universe

#1 of 3 in Across the Universe

2011 • 206 Readers • 399 pages 3.7

Aurora: CV-01

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

2011 • 35 Readers • 301 pages 3.8

Dark Age

#5 of 7 in Red Rising Saga

2019 • 588 Readers • 800 pages 4.5

The Stories of Ibis

2006 • 25 Readers • 422 pages 3.5

Contact

1985 • 608 Readers • 453 pages 4.1

Abduction

2000 • 11 Readers • 416 pages 3.8

Theories of Flight

#2 of 3 in Samuil Petrovitch

2011 • 13 Readers • 238 pages 4.3

The Many-Colored Land

#1 of 4 in Saga of the Pliocene Exile

1981 • 13 Readers • 433 pages 4.3

The Time Maschine

1895 • 3 Readers 4.8

Exhalation

2008 • 910 Readers • 208 pages 4.3

Ubik

1969 • 571 Readers • 241 pages 4

A Memory Called Empire

#1 of 2 in Teixcalaan

2019 • 1,087 Readers • 464 pages 4.2

A Walk in the Dark

1950 • 3 Readers 4.5

Wild Seed

#1 of 4 in Patternmaster

1980 • 217 Readers • 248 pages 4

Stories of Your Life and Others

2002 • 875 Readers • 281 pages 4.3

Sword & Citadel

#3 of 5 in The Book of the New Sun

1994 • 89 Readers • 411 pages 4.4

Recursion

2005 • 1,551 Readers • 329 pages 4.2

Cover 8

#1-3 of 15 in Omega Force

2013 • 2 Readers 3.5

Briardark

#1 of 2 in Briardark

2023 • 46 Readers • 362 pages 3.9

Foundation

#1 of 7 in Foundation (Publication Order)

1951 • 1,885 Readers • 255 pages 4

I, Robot

#0.1 of 4 in Robot

1950 • 1,193 Readers • 304 pages 4.1

Roadside Picnic

1972 • 530 Readers • 226 pages 4

The Moonday Letters

2022 • 19 Readers • 417 pages 4.5

Cover 7

2017 • 188 pages

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

#1 of 1 in Fractalverse

1905 • 771 Readers • 880 pages 3.6

The Accidental Time Machine

2007 • 63 Readers • 278 pages 3.6

Hit Parade of Tears

2023 • 35 Readers • 289 pages 3.8

This Is How You Lose the Time War

2019 • 2,341 Readers • 223 pages 3.9

LoveStar

2002 • 15 Readers • 320 pages 4.3

1984

1949 • 5,782 Readers • 328 pages 4.2

Sandkings

#7 of 4 in DC Science Fiction Graphic Novel

1979 • 45 Readers • 254 pages 4.3

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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

1979 • 3,622 Readers • 215 pages 4.2

The Peripheral

#1 of 3 in Jackpot

2014 • 336 Readers • 486 pages 3.8

The Time Traveler's Wife

2003 • 1,113 Readers • 522 pages 3.9

Monday Starts on Saturday

#1 of 2 in НИИЧАВО

1965 • 40 Readers • 256 pages 3.8

Some Desperate Glory

2023 • 335 Readers • 438 pages 4

Empire of Silence

#1 of 7 in The Sun Eater

2018 • 814 Readers • 624 pages 4

Robot Visions

#0.5 of 4 in Robot

1990 • 46 Readers • 384 pages 3.9

Shadow & Claw

224 Readers 4.1

The Forever War

#1 of 2 in The Forever War

1974 • 813 Readers • 203 pages 3.9

Luna: Nów

#1 of 5 in Luna

2015 • 148 Readers • 432 pages 3.6

Terminal Boredom: Stories

2021 • 77 Readers • 218 pages 3.8

Station Eleven

2014 • 1,847 Readers • 333 pages 4.1

Slated

#1 of 3 in Slated

2012 • 53 Readers • 439 pages 3.8

Too Like the Lightning

#1 of 4 in Terra Ignota

2016 • 384 Readers • 448 pages 3.8