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Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as first-encounter)
avg rating 4.12 — 190,737 ratings — published 1973
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as first-encounter)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,871,628 ratings — published 2021
Childhood’s End (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as first-encounter)
avg rating 4.12 — 178,788 ratings — published 1953
The Mote in God's Eye (Moties, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as first-encounter)
avg rating 4.07 — 74,001 ratings — published 1974
The Fourth Consort (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as first-encounter)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,198 ratings — published 2025
Once Upon a Winter (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as first-encounter)
avg rating 3.93 — 98 ratings — published
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as first-encounter)
avg rating 4.00 — 59,176 ratings — published 2006
Third Loch from the Sun (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as first-encounter)
avg rating 4.23 — 381 ratings — published 2024
The Diploids and Other Flights of Fancy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as first-encounter)
avg rating 3.52 — 42 ratings — published 1962
The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as first-encounter)
avg rating 4.13 — 85,031 ratings — published 1996
Sleeping Giants (Themis Files, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as first-encounter)
avg rating 3.82 — 99,863 ratings — published 2016
Fuzzy Nation (Fuzzy Sapiens, #7)
by (shelved 1 time as first-encounter)
avg rating 4.15 — 32,754 ratings — published 2011
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as first-encounter)
avg rating 4.30 — 196,966 ratings — published 2015
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as first-encounter)
avg rating 4.08 — 537,682 ratings — published 2006
Dragon's Egg (Cheela, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as first-encounter)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,275 ratings — published 1980
A Deepness in the Sky (Zones of Thought, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as first-encounter)
avg rating 4.32 — 35,775 ratings — published 1999
Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as first-encounter)
avg rating 3.91 — 16,299 ratings — published 2018
Demons of the Void (Lacuna #1)
by (shelved 1 time as first-encounter)
avg rating 3.50 — 1,201 ratings — published 2012
Mother of Demons (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as first-encounter)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,383 ratings — published 1997
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as first-encounter)
avg rating 4.40 — 242,302 ratings — published 2008
All You Need Is Kill (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as first-encounter)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,238 ratings — published 2004
2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as first-encounter)
avg rating 4.18 — 344,153 ratings — published 1968
Solaris (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as first-encounter)
avg rating 3.98 — 140,831 ratings — published 1961
Mindbridge (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as first-encounter)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,727 ratings — published 1976
The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as first-encounter)
avg rating 4.09 — 237,624 ratings — published 1969
The Dark Light Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as first-encounter)
avg rating 3.43 — 593 ratings — published 1964
The Byworlder (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as first-encounter)
avg rating 3.34 — 230 ratings — published 1971
Little Fuzzy (Fuzzy Sapiens, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as first-encounter)
avg rating 4.04 — 11,017 ratings — published 1962
“For a nanosecond, I meet her gaze.
Despite the dark, I can see her eye color—it’s the prettiest, strangest shade of blue I’ve ever seen in my life—piercing, dark, and shiny.
And then she is gone.”
― Lost & Found: Anabel & William #1
Despite the dark, I can see her eye color—it’s the prettiest, strangest shade of blue I’ve ever seen in my life—piercing, dark, and shiny.
And then she is gone.”
― Lost & Found: Anabel & William #1
“Why are you carrying all these sticky drinks out to the dance floor?"
"My friends just got engaged. We're doing the girls' night out thing."
"So then you're unlikely to leave here with me."
I blinked, and then blinked again, hard. With this frank suggestion, I was officially out of my depth. Way out of my depth. "I... what? No."
"Pity."
"You're serious? You just met me."
"And already I have a strong urge to devour you.”
― Beautiful Stranger
"My friends just got engaged. We're doing the girls' night out thing."
"So then you're unlikely to leave here with me."
I blinked, and then blinked again, hard. With this frank suggestion, I was officially out of my depth. Way out of my depth. "I... what? No."
"Pity."
"You're serious? You just met me."
"And already I have a strong urge to devour you.”
― Beautiful Stranger
