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Science Fiction
Speculative, idea-driven fiction: space, survival, and systems pushed to their limits.
Dune
Dune set the template that most modern science fiction politics still borrows from: desert ecology, feudal houses, and a messiah narrative that Herbert himself meant as a warning, not a celebration. It's denser and more…
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Dungeon Crawler Carl is the book that got a lot of readers to try LitRPG for the first time: alien game-show apocalypse, a sarcastic cat sidekick, and game-mechanic humor that's more Hitchhiker's Guide than grimdark. It'…
Project Hail Mary A Novel
Project Hail Mary is Andy Weir doing what The Martian did, but bigger: hard-science problem-solving as plot, this time with amnesia, an unlikely alien partnership, and a mystery structure that doles out the stakes slowly…
Red Rising
Red Rising borrows The Hunger Games' class-warfare premise and Ender's Game's competition structure, then goes considerably darker and bloodier; Darrow's infiltration of the ruling Gold caste is brutal by design. It's bo…