Science Fiction Books Worth Reading

10/16/2019

Hard SF: Includes detailed descriptions of factually possible science in a provable scientific field
Soft SF: Characterized by its focus on social sciences, such as anthropology, sociology, and folklore.
Space Opera: Books set in a fictionalized space.
Dystopian: Set in an undesirable social and/or political environment worse than the present.
Steampunk: A historical setting where steam-powered technology plays an important part in the narrative.

Apocalyptic utopia: The American citizens and the military are subjugated becoming complacent by an unseen threat. Could this be a virus, biological agent, or worse, mind-control?

Hard sci-fi: The year is 2152. What started as a normal work day for BJ Armstrong (debugging the latest faulty AI), quickly turned to the adventure of a lifetime.

LGBT steampunk: the world has changed, and both her enemies and her allies race after the same unearthly thing; a weapon of the gods, fallen from the stars themselves, lost in the frozen wastes of Siberia.

Space opera: When Jackson saves a Kelsairan woman from a wrecked ship, the line is suddenly blurred. The enemy isn’t what the government said they were and he can no longer blindly follow orders.

Genetic engineering sci-fi: Max has dedicated much of his life and research to treating schizophrenia. But his dominant and ruthless behavior has poisoned his relationship with Dana.

Time travel: He doesn't have much time. He travels back to Lincoln's presidency to right what went wrong. Unfortunately, correcting time is like herding cats and one fix leads to more and more changes.

Dystopian sci-fi: California citizens labored under the cruel hand of the UN, brought in to enforce martial law. Some citizens felt safer, free of the street violence and looting

Sci-fi colonization: Humanity is colonizing Mars and the upper atmosphere of Venus. Numerous corporation owned space stations orbiting the Earth manufacture high tech products in microgravity.

Sci-fi adventure: Our leader was downed by some unknown disease, our healer mauled in our leader's delirium, and the humans, as I always suspected, were gearing for war to take us out.

Time travel romancce Rowena begins using her newfound gift to solve some century-old mysteries of Sydney. Her extraordinary paranormal adventures have barely begun, however, when she falls desperately in love with a man named Lionel who lived in 1910.