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Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 121 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.50 — 949,430 ratings — published 2021
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 110 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.01 — 51,892 ratings — published 2006
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 107 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.08 — 471,369 ratings — published 2006
The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.14 — 80,802 ratings — published 1996
Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 86 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.12 — 180,908 ratings — published 1973
The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1)
by (shelved 80 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.07 — 72,475 ratings — published 1974
Childhood’s End (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.12 — 171,117 ratings — published 1953
Contact (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 61 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.15 — 150,831 ratings — published 1985
Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,777 ratings — published 2018
Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.15 — 61,527 ratings — published 1987
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.30 — 164,383 ratings — published 2015
Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.71 — 27,683 ratings — published 2020
Remnant Population (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.11 — 7,211 ratings — published 1996
Solaris (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.99 — 126,340 ratings — published 1961
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.18 — 332,312 ratings — published 1968
Eifelheim (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,533 ratings — published 2006
The War of the Worlds (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.83 — 343,640 ratings — published 1898
Roadside Picnic (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.13 — 83,538 ratings — published 1972
To Sleep in a Sea of Stars (Fractalverse, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.80 — 68,518 ratings — published 2020
Pushing Ice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.07 — 21,745 ratings — published 2005
A New Eden (The Betaverse, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.65 — 330 ratings — published 2023
The Mountain in the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.89 — 33,595 ratings — published 2022
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.40 — 209,616 ratings — published 2008
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,457,343 ratings — published 1985
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
by (shelved 29 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.05 — 57,426 ratings — published 2019
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.10 — 213,112 ratings — published 1969
Foreigner (Foreigner, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.92 — 10,830 ratings — published 1994
Dragon's Egg (Cheela, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,627 ratings — published 1980
Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.11 — 268,384 ratings — published 1986
A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
by (shelved 25 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.32 — 34,765 ratings — published 1999
Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.31 — 308,902 ratings — published 2011
Anathem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.17 — 74,884 ratings — published 2008
Blind Lake (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,295 ratings — published 2003
Spin (Spin, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.04 — 43,902 ratings — published 2005
Footfall (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.92 — 17,445 ratings — published 1985
A Desolation Called Peace (Teixcalaan, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.31 — 34,972 ratings — published 2021
Fuzzy Nation (Fuzzy Sapiens, #7)
by (shelved 23 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.15 — 31,898 ratings — published 2011
Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 22 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.25 — 121,816 ratings — published 2002
The Gods Themselves (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.09 — 67,777 ratings — published 1972
The Forge of God (Forge of God, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.86 — 16,185 ratings — published 1987
A Darkling Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,645 ratings — published 2014
A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.13 — 65,686 ratings — published 1992
Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.82 — 96,564 ratings — published 2016
Agent to the Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.93 — 23,515 ratings — published 2004
A Half-Built Garden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,585 ratings — published 2022
We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.27 — 116,656 ratings — published 2016
Lagoon (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.63 — 9,042 ratings — published 2014
Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as first-contact)
avg rating 3.74 — 16,696 ratings — published 2017
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
by (shelved 18 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.41 — 163,487 ratings — published 2010
Gateway (Heechee Saga, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as first-contact)
avg rating 4.06 — 47,004 ratings — published 1977
“Lord Redgar never chose a God for himself. He served them all.”
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“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.
