My Top 10 Sci-Fi Books
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My Top 10 Sci-Fi Books
By Aimee's Pages
Illuminae: The Illuminae Files: Book 1
Amie Kaufman and JAY KRISTOFF
£9.99 £9.49One of the best books I've ever read - and that's saying something. I told everyone to read this, for years. This book is not written like other books. The format is unusual, but the story had me on the literal edge of my seat. I was totally gripped.
Ark
Stephen Baxter
£10.99 £10.44The world is flooding, and humanity is running out of places to go. A government launches an Ark - into space. The intention? To find a new world. To find a way to survive.
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
£9.99 £9.49You may have seen the film, but don't judge a book by its adaptation. The premise is the same, but the novel is so much better; and not limited by copyright!
Nyxia: The Nyxia Triad
Scott Reintgen
£8.99 £8.54“There’s not much left for me on Earth. I wanted to go as far away as possible. Where better than a new planet?” Her eyes squeeze shut for a second. “But they don’t tell you the pain comes with you. They don’t tell you that hurt travels at light-speed too.” Promised more money than he's ever seen, Emmett boards a Babel company spaceship, bound for a distant planet called Eden. He's there to mine Nyxia - the most valuable substance in the universe. Little does he know, he'll have to fight to earn his way onto the planet.
Sleeping Giants: Themis Files Book 1
Sylvain Neuvel
£10.99 £10.44“Generally speaking, people tend not to question what they’ve been told was true. Scientists are no different; they’ve just been told a lot more things.” A little girl called Rose discovers a mysterious giant metal hand in the ground. Many years later, she's a physicist, working as part of a top-secret team, trying to work out the hand's origins. They don't realise they're on the brink of discovering humanity's biggest secret.
Redshirts: The laugh out loud meta sci fi adventure
John Scalzi
£9.99 £9.49“Well, that's science fiction television for you, though," Abnett said. "Someone's got to be the red shirt.” A wonderful meta-read for anyone who's ever seen Star Trek...
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Christopher Paolini
£20.00A brand new novel from Christopher Paolini; making a dramatic move away from fantasy. Xenobiologist Kira Navarez discovers something on a routine survey mission on her last day on an uncolonised planet. First-contact is not what she expected. As her world spins out of control, and she is thrown into a universe-wise web of chaos, Kira may be humanity's last hope.
Dark Eden
Chris Beckett
£10.99 £10.44“And the weird weird thing about this story of Angela's Ring was that it didn't even have a point to it, no happy ending, no lesson to be learnt. It was like one person's cry of pain, echoing out on and on and on trough the generations, even after that person was long long dead.” There are quite a few books about ark ships - humans leaving earth to find new planets to settle on. This one focuses on the descendants of those who actually made it....
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet: the most hopeful, charming and cosy novel to curl up with
Becky Chambers
£9.99 £9.49Very Firefly-esque, this novel is a great look at a small, closely-knit crew of eccentric characters. Gripping and gritty, it's definitely worth a read.