Science Fiction in Outerspace

Updated April 14, 2026
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The Iron Garden Sutra
Sui, A D
Paper Book
Klara and the Sun meets S. A. Barnes's Dead Silence with a touch of Becky Chambers' A Psalm for the Wild-Built in Nebula Award-winning author A.D. Sui's darkly philosophical, locked room murder mystery, as a death monk and a team of researchers trapped onboard a spaceship of...
Halcyon years
Reynolds, Alastair
Paper Book
A private investigator is hired to look into a mysterious, high-profile death aboard the starship Halcyon in this fresh new science fiction masterpiece from the "mastersinger of space opera" (The Times) and the creator of the beloved Revelation Space universe. Strap in for a gripping murder...
Operation Bounce House
Dinniman, Matt
Paper Book
A man must fight for his planet against impossible odds when gamers from Earth attempt to remotely annihilate it in this epic, fast-paced novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the smash-hit Dungeon Crawler Carl. All colonist Oliver Lewis ever wanted to...
We are legion : (we are Bob)
Taylor, Dennis E.
Paper Book
"I love the Bobiverse! Some of the best sci-fi out there. These novels have everything, but most importantly Bob was there, too." --Andy Weir, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Project Hail Mary The book that launched a thousand Bobs and the first novel in...
Dancing with Destruction
Cordova, Jason
Paper Book
A relentless alien pursues a beleaguered squad of soldiers through time and reality, while the Elderwatch monitors their fates, unraveling the intertwining stories of survival and annihilation. When does the hunter become the hunted? How does a single image change the story to...
These burning stars
Jacobs, Bethany (Novelist)
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2024 PHILIP K. DICK AWARD  "These Burning Stars pulls off one of the most brazen, gasp-inducing reveals I've experienced in an age." -Esquire  A dangerous cat-and-mouse quest for revenge. An empire...
Artifact
Robinson, Jeremy
Paper Book
In an isolated Alaskan town, the local sheriff uncovers a secret lab where generative AI and bioprinting have unleashed something monstrous . . . Sheriff Colton Graves prefers the quiet life in Raven's Rest, Alaska, a remote town accessible only by tunnel and home to a hardy mix of...
Future's Edge
Powell, Gareth L.
Paper Book
When archaeologist Ursula Morrow accidentally infects herself with an alien parasite, she fears she may have jeopardised her career. However, her concerns become irrelevant when Earth is destroyed, billions die, and suddenly no one needs archaeologists anymore... Two years later, she's...
Final orbit
Hadfield, Chris
Paper Book
Houston, 1975. A new Apollo mission launches into orbit, on course to dock with a Russian Soyuz craft: three NASA astronauts and three cosmonauts, joining to celebrate a new dawn of Soviet-American cooperation. But as NASA Flight Controller Kaz Zemeckis listens in from Earth, a deadly...
Exiles
Coile, Mason
Paper Book
Master of evil
Christopher, Adam
Paper Book
In the wake of Emperor Palpatine's rise to power, the true nature of his most sinister enforcer remains a mystery. Darth Vader is a dominant yet illusive figure- the shadow cast by a malignant Imperial regime, unknowable to even its top officials. But even as his humanity gives way to myth, Vader...
Orbital : a novel
Harvey, Samantha
Paper Book
Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, a group of astronauts and cosmonauts--from America, Russia, Italy, Britain, and Japan--have left their lives behind to travel through space at over seventeen thousand miles an hour as the earth reels...
2001: a Space Odyssey
Clarke, Arthur C.
Paper Book
The classic science fiction novel that captures and expands on the vision of Stanley Kubrick's immortal film--and changed the way we look at the stars and ourselves. From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man ventures to the outer rim of...
All systems red
Wells, Martha
Paper Book
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award for Best Novella Winner of the Alex Award A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Now an Apple Original series from Academy Award nominees Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz and starring Emmy...
Dawn : xenogenesis
Butler, Octavia E.
Paper Book
Lilith lyapo awoke from a centuries-long sleep to find herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. Creatures covered in writhing tentacles, the Oankali had saved every surviving human from a dying, ruined Earth. They healed the planet, cured cancer, increased strength, and were now ready to...
Children of time
Tchaikovsky, Adrian
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE 2016 ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDThe last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life...
Aama. 1, The smell of warm dust
Peeters, Frederik
Paper Book
In the distant future, Verloc Nim wakes up in the middle of nowhere suffering from complete amnesia. He remembers nothing of his former life. But when Verloc is handed his diary by a robot-ape called Churchill, he is able to revisit his past. His life, he discovers, has been a miserable one. He lost...
The first murder on Mars
Wilson, Sam
Paper Book
THE MARTAIN meets THE EXPANSE in this page turning debut science-fiction mystery ****This is the story of the first human being born on Mars: Rose Fuller. She saw a better future than the one we were given and gave her life to build it.It's a story about Dylan Ward, a woman who grew...
Cascade failure
Sagas, L. M.
Paper Book
L. M. Sagas's debut, Cascade Failure, is a high-octane, sci-fi adventure blending J. S. Dewes's Divide series with Firefly. It features a fierce, messy, chaotic space family, vibrant worlds, and an exploration of the many ways to be--and not to be--human. Most...
The Salvage Crew
Wijeratne, Yudhanjaya
Paper Book
They thought this was just another salvage job. They thought wrong. An AI overseer and a human crew arrive on a distant planet to salvage an ancient UN starship. The overseer is unhappy. The crew, well, they're certainly no A-team. Not even a C-team on the best of days. And worse? Urmahon...
Ghost station
Barnes, S. A.
Paper Book
"Relentlessly creepy and fantastically atmospheric...Ghost Station is space horror at its best."--The New York Times A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.A. Barnes, acclaimed author of Dead Silence....
The deep sky
Kitasei, Yume
Paper Book
Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission into deep space that begins with a lethal explosion that leaves the survivors questioning the loyalty of the crew. They left Earth to save humanity. They'll have to save themselves...
Quantum
Cornwell, Patricia Daniels
Paper Book
A USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Amazon Charts bestseller. International bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers pulse-pounding thrills in the first book in a series featuring a brilliant and unusual new heroine, cutting-edge...
Floating hotel
Curtis, Grace
Paper Book
'Beautiful' HANNAH KANER 'Quietly incredible' CATRIONA SILVEY 'A joy' CLAIRE NORTH ARE YOU READY TO CHECK IN? A locked room mystery that's out of this world. Full of charm and warmth, Floating Hotel is a hopeful story of...
The long way to a small, angry planet
Chambers, Becky
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'A quietly profound, humane tour de force' Guardian The beloved debut novel that will restore your faith in humanity #SmallAngryPlanet When Rosemary Harper...
The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy : the authorized collection
Adams, Douglas
Paper Book
Originally published: Great Britain: Pan Books, Ltd., 1979.
The calculating stars
Kowal, Mary Robinette
Paper Book
Mary Robinette Kowal's science fiction debut, 2019 Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Award for best novel, The Calculating Stars, explores the premise behind her award-winning "Lady Astronaut of Mars." Winner 2018 Nebula Award for Best Novel Winner 2019...
The Mars house
Pulley, Natasha
Paper Book
'Pure Pulley' STUART TURTON'Joyful and profound' CATRIONA WARD'Simply unputdownable' THOMAS D. LEE'A work of staggering genius' IMRAN MAHMOOD'Charming and funny and perfectly paced' TEMI OH'A spiritual heir to Terry Pratchett' ROBIN STEVENS 'Book...
The flight of the Aphrodite
Morden, S. J.
Paper Book
The imposition of unnecessary obstacles
Older, Malka
Paper Book
Named a Best Sci-Fi Book of 2024 by Esquire Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a new mystery in the follow-up to the cozy space-opera detective mystery The Mimicking of Known Successes, which Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Jane Anders...
A memory called Empire
Martine, Arkady
Paper Book
In a war of lies she seeks the truthAmbassador Mahit Dzmare travels to the Teixcalaanli Empire's interstellar capital, eager to take up her new post. Yet when she arrives, she discovers her predecessor was murdered. But no one will admit his death wasn't accidental - and she might be next.Now Mahit...
Dune
Herbert, Frank
Paper Book
Frank Herbert's epic masterpiece--a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time. This deluxe hardcover edition of Dune includes: · An iconic new cover · A stamped and foiled case featuring a quote from the Litany Against...
Ringworld
Niven, Larry.
Paper Book
'Magnificent' James Blish 'Niven has ideas the size of planets' Time Out Pierson's puppeteers, strange, three-legged, two-headed aliens, have discovered an immense structure in a hitherto unexplored part of the universe. Frightened of...
Foundation
Asimov, Isaac
Paper Book
The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THEAPPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION .Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read For twelve thousand...
Empire of silence
Ruocchio, Christopher
Paper Book
"[E]pic science fiction at its most genuinely epic." --James S.A. Corey, New York Times-bestselling author of The Expanse novels "This wow book is a must for fans of Pierce Brown and Patrick Rothfuss." --Library Journal (starred) Hadrian Marlowe, a man revered as...

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