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This Year's Most Popular New Sci-Fi Novels
Science fiction explores the profound questions of the day. And when it comes to reading your next sci-fi novel, this year's novels have plenty of ways to think about the human condition, especially through an AI lens. How about a novel about a robot with human feelings, a robot with a murder to solve, or robots taking over the gig economy?
Or you could settle in with a sci-fi thriller about a clone that absconds with her human's husband? Or perhaps you're in the mood for something along the lines of Orphan Black meets Margaret Atwood? Or maybe We Were Liars meets Black Mirror?
Among Goodreads' 125 million members, these are the most popular new sci-fi novels published so far this year. What do we mean by popular? These novels have garnered both the most Want to Read adds and the most reviews on the site.
Scroll over the covers below to learn more about each book, and be sure to add the books that pique your interest to your Want to Read shelf!
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Have you read a new sci-fi novel you'd recommend to your fellow readers? Tell us about it in the comments below!
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P.E. wrote: "I'd like to suggest lesser known SF and Fantasy stories :) For those who are into these genres, here goes :)
For S.F. readers :)
Red Grass
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Thanks for the recs :)
ok top 3 for me in each genre ... and then a few off genreS.F.
julian may pliocene exile series
harry harrison stainless steel rat series
michael anderle kurtherian gambit
heinlein stranger in a strange land (imo this is one of the best ever
fantasy
robert jordan wheel of time
raymond e feist magician series
melanie rawn dragon prince series
S.F. / Fantasy blend
cristopher stasheff warlock series
anne mcCaffrey dragon riders of pern
Urban Fantasy
jim butcher dresden files
shayne silvers templeverse
david delaney paragon society
Humor
robert aspirin phules books or myth series
spider robinson callahans series (my go to books when im feeling down... they just make you feel better
honorable mentions
simon r greene either deathstalker series or the hawk and fisher stuff
cs friedman coldfire series
well thats my 2 cents to keep people reading
Project Hail Mary Andy Weir. A relative new Author and only his third book. I've only Just finished this book, a highly imaginative story and the science is utterly believable, a real page turner I couldn't put it down, it ends with a great twist, highly recommended.
@James: Thanks for the suggestions, I enjoyed Stranger In a Strange Land too when I read it, nearly 8 years ago :)
P.E. wrote: "I'd like to suggest lesser known SF and Fantasy stories :) For those who are into these genres, here goes :)
For S.F. readers :)
Red Grass
Nightmares and Geezenstacks
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I love Fredrick Brown. I find Paradox lost to be his best.
I really enjoyed Project Hail Mary, but I am not very familiar with the rest of these.
I have just read Aurora Rising and Aurora Burning by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. Cant wait for the third book this fall.
P.E. wrote: "I'd like to suggest lesser known SF and Fantasy stories :) For those who are into these genres, here goes :)
For S.F. readers :)
Red Grass
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Wow, what an amazing list!! Thanks for posting :)
P.E. wrote: "I'd like to suggest lesser known SF and Fantasy stories :) For those who are into these genres, here goes :)
Futu.re was a disappointment after his great Metro series. It spends less time on sci-fi and more time on describing an idiots sexual fantasies.
I'd like to suggest The Zero Signal as a lesser known work with an amazing average rating and reviews.
Relentless by Jack Campbell, the latest in the Lost fleet series.Great space opera.
I'm reading "Echoes of Gravity" by James Murdo. It's book one of his "Tapache's Promise" trilogy. If you like cerebral sci-fi, I wholeheartedly recommend it!
Quite excited to read A Psalm for the Wild-Built; really enjoyed reading Becky Chambers's writing so looking forward to her new series.Currently reading Klara and the Sun and then off to Arkady Martine's Memory Called Empire so I can follow up with A Desolation Called Peace.
Too many books, too little time!
Project Hail Mary - I listened to this as an audiobook. It was brilliant - and a worthy successor to the other books by Andy Weir. And I agree with the suggestion of The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher. Well written and nice little inserts of humour such as:
"Harry?" Bob asked. "Are your feet wet? And can you see the pyramids?"
I blinked. "What?"
"Earth to Dresden," Bob said. "You are standing knee-deep in de Nile.”
I agree that Project Hail Mary is excellent. Appleseed was very very good. We Are Satellites isn’t sci fi, futuristic but very near future. Hummingbird Salamander is on my holds list at the library and I’m looking forward to it.
Just read (Con) science by P.J. Manney. I believe it is Hugo caliber.
I'd like to add:SF
Vidar Hokstad's Galaxy Bound
also (currently reading)
Jonathan Nevair's Goodbye to the Sun
Fantasy: Dan Fitzgerald's Maer Cycle (Hollow Road, The Archive, The Place Below)
Emma Flemming's Surrendered Twilight
Can I add in Speculative fiction? If so Marian L Thorpe's ongoing Empire series (Empire's Daughter, Empire's Hostage, Empire's Exile...)
All great books!
Some of y'all didn't read the title of the article, LOL. Emphasis on the word NEW....."This Year's Most Popular New Sci-Fi Novels"
Enjoyed Hail Mary, am addicted to Murderbot stories, had fun with Max Barry's page turner 22 Murders of Madison May. Just started Hummingbird Salamander. Would recommend 2020's Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez, --found it captivating and original.
Charles wrote: "Project Hail Mary Andy Weir. A relative new Author and only his third book. I've only Just finished this book, a highly imaginative story and the science is utterly believable, a re..."I read his two previous books and thoroughly enjoyed The Martian, but Project Hail Mary was one long slung through a basically boring book. The real problem is the fact that all he writes about is complicated science. Without all of that, the book would be at least 1/3 as long.
I have a serious question, and I don't mean to sound rude. I have been a sci-fi fan for over 50 years. I want to know if it is just a trend to try and make connections between a new work and popular works. When I read a blurb that says (book. movie, author) meats (video game, author, TV show) I suspect it means it's a tired story that I've already read too many times, or is it supposed to be a hint that if I like the author, TV show, or movie I might like the book? I still have hundreds of books on my to read list, and I'm getting too old to waste time on derivative plots.
Charles wrote: "Project Hail Mary Andy Weir. A relative new Author and only his third book. I've only Just finished this book, a highly imaginative story and the science is utterly believable, a re..."Thanks
P.E. wrote: "I'd like to suggest lesser known SF and Fantasy stories :) For those who are into these genres, here goes :)
For S.F. readers :)
Red Grass
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hey! sorry if this is weird, but I tracked your comment down to let you know that I just finished "The Carpet Makers" literally a few minutes ago, and it's one of the best books I've ever read. Genuinely, thank you so much for leaving these recs, I'll definitely check more of them out soon!!
For those who are into these genres, here goes :)
For S.F. readers :)
Red Grass
Nightmares and Geezenstacks
Micromegas
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Eternal Bread
FUTU.RE
Рассказы о Родине
The Carpet Makers
For Fantasy and Weird Fiction readers :)
The Man Who Spoke Snakish
The Other Side of the Mountain
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
The House on the Borderland
And thanks GR for the promising topic :)