mimi10v3Accessible speculative adventures in which the idea stays attached to people and plot. Alien contact, survival engineering, military strategy, and far-future societies matter most when they test agency and relationship.
The recorded ratings average 6.0/10, with 0 perfect tens. Recurring authors include Orson Scott Card, L. E. Modesitt Jr., Andy Weir.
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Ender's Shadow
About the bookEnder's Shadow presents the parallel narrative of Peter 'Bean' Paugh, a street orphan in the slums of São Paulo, who is recruited into the same military training program as Ender Wiggin…
8/10Popular Fiction : Science FictionEnder's Game
About the bookIn a future where humanity survives only by preemptively striking at the Formics, an insectoid alien species, the military recruits children for Battle School. Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, a…
8/10Popular Fiction : Science FictionThe Martian
About the bookAndy Weir's debut novel follows Mark Watney, an astronaut stranded alone on Mars after a storm forces his crew to abandon him. The narrative is driven by Watney's first-person voice, wh…
7/10Popular Fiction : Science FictionContrarian
About the bookThe third installment in L. E. Modesitt Jr.'s Grand Illusion series, Contrarian continues the saga of a society where psychic abilities are the primary currency of power and social stra…
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| A Better World | Marcus Sakey | 2014 | 4 | Read | → |
| A Mote in Shadow | A. N. Alex | 2024 | — | In catalog | → |
| Children of the Mind | Orson Scott Card | 1996 | — | Read | → |
| Children of Time | Adrian Tchaikovsky | 2015 | — | Partly read | → |
| Contrarian | L. E. Modesitt Jr. | 2023 | 7 | Read | → |
| Ender's Game | Orson Scott Card | 1985 | 8 | Read | → |
| Ender's Shadow | Orson Scott Card | 1999 | 9 | Read | → |
| Firebreak | Nicole Kornher-Stace | 2021 | — | Unread | → |
| Flash | L. E. Modesitt Jr. | 2004 | 6 | Read | → |
| Heavy Weather | Bruce Sterling | 1994 | — | Unread | → |
| Isolate | L. E. Modesitt Jr. | 2021 | 6 | Read | → |
| Jurassic Park | Michael Crichton | 1990 | — | Read | → |
| Otherland: City of Golden Shadow | Tad Williams | 1996 | — | Unread | → |
| Project Hail Mary | Andy Weir | 2021 | 7 | Read | → |
| Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | 2011 | 4 | Read | → |
| Recursion | Blake Crouch | 2019 | — | Unread | → |
| Shadow of the Giant | Orson Scott Card | 2000 | — | Read | → |
| Shadow of the Hegemon | Orson Scott Card | 2001 | 6 | Read | → |
| Shadow Puppets | Orson Scott Card | 2002 | — | Read | → |
| Singularity Sky | Charles Stross | 2003 | — | Unread | → |
| Speaker for the Dead | Orson Scott Card | 1986 | 7 | Read | → |
| The Many-Colored Land | Julian May | 1981 | 4 | Read | → |
| The Martian | Andy Weir | 2011 | 8 | Read | → |
| The Rowan | Anne McCaffrey | 1990 | 7 | Read | → |
| There Is No Antimemetics Division | qntm | 2018 | 4 | Read | → |