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

2011 • 2,665 Readers • 384 pages 4.4

Dune

1965 • 3,980 Readers • 704 pages 4.3

Hyperion

1989 • 1,489 Readers • 481 pages 4.3

Ender's Game

1985 • 2,198 Readers • 256 pages 4.3

Dark Matter

2016 • 1,907 Readers • 340 pages 4

Neuromancer

1984 • 1,530 Readers • 271 pages 3.9

Project Hail Mary

2021 • 3,153 Readers • 496 pages 4.4

Wool

2011 • 1,028 Readers • 592 pages 4.1

The Left Hand of Darkness

1969 • 1,110 Readers • 267 pages 4.1

Parable of the Sower

1993 • 1,039 Readers • 350 pages 4.1

The Dark Forest

2008 • 886 Readers • 400 pages 4.2

Leviathan Wakes

2011 • 1,691 Readers • 19h 9m 4.2

Brave New World

1930 • 2,532 Readers • 332 pages 3.9

The Sparrow

1996 • 470 Readers • 515 pages 4

Snow Crash

1992 • 1,268 Readers • 448 pages 3.9

Heir to the Empire

1991 • 366 Readers • 404 pages 4.1

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

1968 • 1,454 Readers • 223 pages 4

Red Rising

2014 • 2,269 Readers • 382 pages 4.1

The Robots of Dawn

1958 • 188 Readers • 449 pages 4

Iron Widow

2019 • 699 Readers • 394 pages 3.9

The Time Machine

1894 • 980 Readers • 140 pages 3.7

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

2014 • 1,259 Readers • 518 pages 4.1

Flowers for Algernon

19 • 1,413 Readers • 117 pages 4.3

Burning Chrome

1981 • 187 Readers • 224 pages 3.8

Artemis Fowl

2001 • 564 Readers • 396 pages 3.7

Frankenstein

2019 • 2 Readers • 294 pages 3.3

Ancillary Justice

2013 • 827 Readers • 416 pages 4

A Canticle for Leibowitz

1959 • 507 Readers • 334 pages 3.9

Annihilation

2014 • 1,315 Readers • 208 pages 3.7

The Stories of Ibis

2006 • 25 Readers • 422 pages 3.5

Contact

1985 • 520 Readers • 453 pages 4.1

Abduction

2000 • 11 Readers • 416 pages 3.8

Theories of Flight

2011 • 11 Readers • 350 pages 4.3

The Many-Colored Land

1981 • 13 Readers • 433 pages 4.3

There Will Come Soft Rains

1950 • 37 Readers • 30 pages 4.4

The Time Maschine

1895 • 2 Readers 4.8

Exhalation

2019 • 780 Readers • 350 pages 4.3

Ubik

1969 • 485 Readers • 241 pages 4

A Walk in the Dark

1950 • 3 Readers 4.5

Wild Seed

1980 • 187 Readers • 248 pages 4

Stories of Your Life and Others

2002 • 742 Readers • 281 pages 4.3

Sword & Citadel

1994 • 66 Readers • 411 pages 4.4

Recursion

2005 • 1,312 Readers • 329 pages 4.2

Cover 8

2013 • 2 Readers 3.5

Briardark

2023 • 38 Readers • 362 pages 3.9

Foundation

1951 • 1,572 Readers • 255 pages 4

Roadside Picnic

1972 • 434 Readers • 249 pages 4

The Moonday Letters

2022 • 11 Readers • 417 pages 5

Cover 7

2017 • 188 pages

To Sleep in a Sea of Stars

1905 • 668 Readers • 880 pages 3.7

The Accidental Time Machine

2007 • 56 Readers • 278 pages 3.5

LoveStar

2002 • 13 Readers • 320 pages 4.3

1984

1949 • 4,819 Readers • 352 pages 4.2

Sandkings

1979 • 42 Readers • 254 pages 4.3

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

1979 • 3,072 Readers • 215 pages 4.2

Monday Starts on Saturday

1965 • 31 Readers • 224 pages 3.8

The Peripheral

2014 • 291 Readers 3.8

The Time Traveler's Wife

2003 • 949 Readers • 522 pages 3.9

Some Desperate Glory

2023 • 287 Readers • 438 pages 4

Empire of Silence

2018 • 662 Readers • 624 pages 4

Robot Visions

1990 • 32 Readers • 384 pages 4

Shadow & Claw

184 Readers 4.1

The Forever War

1974 • 671 Readers • 218 pages 4

Luna: Nów

2015 • 133 Readers • 432 pages 3.5

Station Eleven

2014 • 1,588 Readers • 333 pages 4.1

Slated

2012 • 45 Readers • 439 pages 3.8

Too Like the Lightning

2016 • 317 Readers • 448 pages 3.8

Universal War One

2015 • 1 Reader 4

Across the Universe

2011 • 164 Readers • 1 page 3.6

Aurora: CV-01

2011 • 28 Readers • 301 pages 3.8

Dark Age

2019 • 494 Readers • 800 pages 4.5