books / scifi
Looking for a sci-fi book that isn't all spaceships
Speculative fiction that's about people first, technology second.
- Station Eleven — Emily St. John Mandel 2014Pandemic, Shakespeare troupe, twenty years on.
- Never Let Me Go — Kazuo Ishiguro 2005British boarding school. Slow reveal.
- The Left Hand of Darkness — Le Guin 1969An icy planet, gender, diplomacy.
- Klara and the Sun — Ishiguro 2021An AF (artificial friend) waits.
- Dark Matter — Blake Crouch 2016Multiverse done well.
- Recursion — Blake Crouch 2019Memory + time. Crouch's other big one.
- Project Hail Mary — Andy Weir 2021Single astronaut. Weir's best.
- Severance — Ling Ma 2018Pandemic novel that came out before the pandemic.
- Annihilation — Jeff VanderMeer 2014Area X. Read in summer.
- The Three-Body Problem — Cixin Liu 2008Cultural Revolution into cosmology.