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Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,661,696 ratings — published 2021
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 117 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.00 — 56,948 ratings — published 2006
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 116 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.08 — 519,375 ratings — published 2006
The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
by (shelved 100 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.13 — 83,428 ratings — published 1996
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 90 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.12 — 188,074 ratings — published 1973
The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.07 — 73,635 ratings — published 1974
Childhood’s End (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.12 — 176,603 ratings — published 1953
Contact (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 67 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.15 — 154,844 ratings — published 1985
Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
by (shelved 60 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.90 — 15,643 ratings — published 2018
Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.15 — 66,454 ratings — published 1987
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.30 — 187,538 ratings — published 2015
Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.70 — 28,693 ratings — published 2020
Remnant Population (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,900 ratings — published 1996
Shroud (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,355 ratings — published 2025
Solaris (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.98 — 136,560 ratings — published 1961
The Mountain in the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.87 — 39,261 ratings — published 2022
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.18 — 340,982 ratings — published 1968
The War of the Worlds (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.83 — 356,825 ratings — published 1898
Eifelheim (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,708 ratings — published 2006
Roadside Picnic (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.12 — 91,959 ratings — published 1972
The Polymorph (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.28 — 21,819 ratings — published 2023
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.05 — 66,825 ratings — published 2019
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
by (shelved 32 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.40 — 234,394 ratings — published 2008
Pushing Ice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.07 — 23,167 ratings — published 2005
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.80 — 72,445 ratings — published 2020
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,491,842 ratings — published 1985
The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.15 — 41,952 ratings — published 2024
A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.64 — 359 ratings — published 2023
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.09 — 230,633 ratings — published 1969
Foreigner (Foreigner, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.92 — 11,118 ratings — published 1994
Dragon's Egg (Cheela, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,130 ratings — published 1980
Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
by (shelved 28 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.11 — 275,629 ratings — published 1986
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.31 — 331,080 ratings — published 2011
A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.32 — 35,505 ratings — published 1999
Footfall (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.92 — 17,748 ratings — published 1985
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.30 — 37,917 ratings — published 2021
Anathem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.17 — 76,431 ratings — published 2008
Spin (Spin, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.04 — 45,223 ratings — published 2005
The Forge of God (Forge of God, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.87 — 16,601 ratings — published 1987
Blind Lake (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,388 ratings — published 2003
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.13 — 67,828 ratings — published 1992
Fuzzy Nation (Fuzzy Sapiens, #7)
by (shelved 23 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.15 — 32,519 ratings — published 2011
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 22 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.25 — 129,742 ratings — published 2002
A Darkling Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,684 ratings — published 2014
The Gods Themselves (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.08 — 69,901 ratings — published 1972
A Half-Built Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,803 ratings — published 2022
Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.82 — 98,959 ratings — published 2016
Lagoon (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.63 — 9,423 ratings — published 2014
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.80 — 321,119 ratings — published 2014
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.40 — 181,093 ratings — published 2010
“Your president only speaks for Americans. American movies speak for your world. Who hasn't seen Wizard of Oz? Or Jaws? Or Star Wars? We've seen them, and we're not even from this planet.”
― Agent to the Stars
― Agent to the Stars
“It took me all day to get that car out. Well, it wasn’t a car. That’s just what I thought it might be when I spotted part of it jutting out from decades of forest undergrowth, and moss, inside a mound of blackberry bushes.”
― Tom and G.E.R.I.
― Tom and G.E.R.I.
