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...
The Long Way Home
Chiles, Patrick
Paper Book
Interstellar medic Melanie Mooney races against time to save her patients while unraveling cosmic mysteries and navigating the dangers of space, all while longing for the Earth she left behind. Find a Way Home Everything is relative. Einstein said so. ...
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...
The Immeasurable Heaven
Geon, Caspar
Paper Book
An entirely alien cast race across the multiverse in search of a priceless map of the realities in this thrilling cosmic space opera! The Race for Reality Has Begun. The galaxy of Yokkun's Depth has been settled since time immemorial. There is only one...
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...
Extinction: A Military Sci-Fi Thriller
Simon, Michael
Paper Book
"This is a story that lingers, making you ponder the fragile line between extinction and survival." --Literary Titan In this military SF thriller, a colony on one of Jupiter's moons will either be the last bastion of human civilization . . . or ground zero for its...
Final Orbit
Hadfield, Chris.
Paper Book
A #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. From the #1 bestselling author and astronaut Chris Hadfield, an edge-of-your-seat thriller set about China's secret role in the 1970s Space Race between the US and the USSR. Houston, 1975. A new Apollo mission launches into orbit...
Exiles : a novel
Coile, Mason
Paper Book
A New York Times Book Review Favorite Book of 2025 A terrifying locked-room mystery from the author of William--this time set on a remote outpost on Mars. The human crew sent to prepare the first colony on Mars arrives to find the new base half...
Master of evil
Christopher, Adam
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * After Revenge of the Sith, a newly forged Darth Vader hunts for the secrets of life and death under the watchful eye of Emperor Palpatine. In the wake of Emperor Palpatine's rise to power, the true nature of his most sinister enforcer remains a...
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
A deluxe hardcover edition of the wondrous space adventure that is the basis for Stanley Kubrick's Oscar-winning film--now celebrating its 50th anniversary Part of Penguin Galaxy, a collectible series of six sci-fi/fantasy classics, featuring a series introduction by Neil Gaiman...
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
Butler, Octavia E.
Paper Book
One woman is called upon to rebuild the future of humankind after a nuclear war, in this revelatory post-apocalyptic tale from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower. When Lilith lyapo wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself aboard the...
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...
Galaxy Grifter: A Snarky, High-Stakes Space Opera
Zaykova, A.
Paper Book
Only the wittiest, smarmiest, most sycophantic person in the galaxy can grift like Levi can.  Levi is an interstellar con artist: all charm, no conscience. His only real love is his spaceship, Caerus--his symbol of status and freedom--which...
The First Murder on Mars
Wilson, Sam
Paper Book
This is the story of the first human being born on Mars: Rose Fuller, who saw a better future than the one that came to pass. And Dylan Ward, a woman raised in the vast wilderness of the frontier, who will find her way back to it. It is a story about a...
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
Esquire Best Sci-Fi Books of 2024 UK bestseller Goodreads 58 Biggest Books of Spring Men's Health 30 Most Anticipated Sci-Fi and Fantasy books of 2024 Apple Books 2024's Most Anticipated Books LitHub March's Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy...
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
Carnell, John
Paper Book
It's the Authorized Collection of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Graphic Novel), created at an improbability of 75,673,291to1 against. Douglas Adams' wildly funny, wickedly clever, sci-fi extravaganza is collected here for the first time. So grab your towel, stick a babel of fish in your ear,...
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 : a novel
Pulley, Natasha
Paper Book
A compulsively readable queer sci-fi novel about a marriage of convenience between a Mars politician and an Earth refugee. Named a Best Book of 2024 by The Washington Post * Amazon * Book Riot * LitHub * Paste Magazine * HuffPost In the wake of an...
The Flight of the Aphrodite
Morden, S. J.
Paper Book
A thrilling standalone science fiction space adventure from Philip K. Dick award-winning author S.J. Morden Strange radio signals are coming from Jupiter's largest moons. A natural phenomenon, or something else? Commander Mariucci...
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...
Bitch planet : triple feature. Vol. 1
DeConnick, Kelly Sue
Paper Book
DECONNICK & DE LANDRO PRESENT: The TripleFeature! Ripped directly from the worldof BITCH PLANET, a crack team of creators spin fifteen teeth-clenching tales ofrage, revolution and ridicule.
A memory called empire
Martine, Arkady
Paper Book
Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel A Locus, and Nebula Award nominee for 2019An NPR Favorite Book of 2019 An Esquire Best Sci-Fi Book of All Time A Guardian Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2019 and "Not...
Dune Dune Series, Book 1
Herbert, Frank.
Ebook
Frank Herbert's classic masterpiece--a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides--who would become known as Muad'Dib--and of a great family's ambition to...
Ringworld
Niven, Larry.
Paper Book
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards for best novel Four travelers come to the ringworld. . . Louis Wu: human and old; bored with having lived too fully for far too many years. Seeking a challenge, and all too capable of handling it. Nessus: a trembling coward, a...
Foundation
Asimov, Isaac
Ebook
The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series THE EPIC SAGA THAT INSPIRED THE APPLE TV+ SERIES FOUNDATION * Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read   ...
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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