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science fiction

19 books in this category

From a Buick 8 by Stephen King

From a Buick 8

by Stephen King

4.0
9/7/2021

Pennsylvania state troopers share the decades-long mystery of a strange car that sits in their shed—a car that is not quite a car and may be a doorway to another world.

fictionhorror
8 hours
Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King

Sleeping Beauties

by Stephen King

3.0
8/16/2021

When a mysterious phenomenon causes women worldwide to fall into a cocooned sleep, the men left behind descend into violence while the women find themselves in a new world.

fictionhorror
16 hours
The Institute by Stephen King

The Institute

by Stephen King

4.0
6/20/2021

Children with special abilities are being kidnapped and taken to a mysterious facility in Maine where sinister experiments await them.

fictionhorror
13 hours
The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Giver

by Lois Lowry

4.0
2/16/2021

In a seemingly perfect society without pain, suffering, or conflict, twelve-year-old Jonas is selected to inherit the position of Receiver of Memory and discovers the dark truth behind his community's utopia.

young-adultdystopian
4 hours
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay

by Suzanne Collins

4.0
2/2/2021

The explosive finale of The Hunger Games trilogy. Katniss Everdeen becomes the symbol of rebellion as she leads the fight against the Capitol, facing impossible choices and devastating losses.

young-adultdystopian
8 hours
Memories of Tomorrow by Dean Koontz

Memories of Tomorrow

by Dean Koontz

5.0
1/18/2021

Dean Koontz's mind-bending Nameless novella about a killer who seems to know the future. Nameless must stop this impossible threat while questioning the nature of time and fate. Cerebral, dark, and philosophically ambitious thriller.

horrorsuspense
2 hours
In the Heart of the Fire by Dean Koontz

In the Heart of the Fire

by Dean Koontz

5.0
1/17/2021

Dean Koontz's Nameless novella about the enigmatic vigilante confronting a murderous arsonist with supernatural abilities. Dark, tense, and philosophically rich—Koontz at his pulp-literary best in compact form. Part of the addictive Nameless series.

horrorsuspense
2 hours
Randomize by Andy Weir

Randomize

by Andy Weir

3.0
10/30/2020

An Amazon Original Story from the author of The Martian. A casino security expert must figure out how a gambler is beating the house with seemingly impossible consistency, leading to a clever exploration of randomness, probability, and technology.

fictionshort-stories
1 hour
The Last Conversation by Paul Tremblay

The Last Conversation

by Paul Tremblay

3.0
10/29/2020

An Amazon Original Story from horror writer Paul Tremblay. A woman dying of cancer undergoes an experimental procedure to upload her consciousness, but the process raises disturbing questions about identity, death, and what it means to be human.

fictionshort-stories
1 hour
You Have Arrived at Your Destination by Amor Towles

You Have Arrived at Your Destination

by Amor Towles

3.0
10/28/2020

An Amazon Original Story from the author of A Gentleman in Moscow. A couple considering designer babies must choose their unborn child's traits from possible futures, raising profound questions about parenting, determinism, and the nature of choice.

fictionshort-stories
1.5 hours
Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin

Emergency Skin

by N.K. Jemisin

3.0
10/26/2020

An Amazon Original Story from the award-winning author of The Broken Earth trilogy. A pilot is sent from a human colony in space back to a supposedly dead Earth to retrieve genetic material, but what he finds challenges everything he's been taught about humanity's past and future.

fictionshort-stories
1 hour
Summer Frost by Blake Crouch

Summer Frost

by Blake Crouch

3.0
10/25/2020

An Amazon Original Story from the author of Dark Matter and Recursion. A video game designer discovers that her game's AI character may have achieved true consciousness, raising profound questions about artificial intelligence, personhood, and what we owe sentient beings we create.

fictionshort-stories
1.5 hours
Ark by Veronica Roth

Ark

by Veronica Roth

3.0
10/24/2020

An Amazon Original Story from the author of Divergent. A thought-provoking short story about a generation ship carrying humanity's last survivors, exploring themes of sacrifice, duty, and what it means to preserve humanity's future.

fictionshort-stories
1 hour
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire

by Suzanne Collins

4.5
10/23/2020

The second book in the Hunger Games trilogy. Katniss and Peeta's victory tour sparks rebellion across Panem, and President Snow forces them back into the arena for the Quarter Quell—a special Games featuring previous victors. The stakes have never been higher.

fictionyoung-adult
7 hours
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

4.0
10/21/2020

In a dystopian future, sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her sister's place in the Hunger Games—a televised fight to the death where only one of twenty-four tributes can survive. A cultural phenomenon that revitalized YA dystopian fiction.

fictionyoung-adult
7 hours
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

2.5
9/27/2020

Aldous Huxley's chilling vision of a future where humanity has traded freedom for stability, individuality for conformity, and truth for comfortable lies. A dystopian masterpiece that feels more relevant with each passing year.

fictionscience-fiction
5 hours
Halfway to Free by Emma Donoghue

Halfway to Free

by Emma Donoghue

3.0
9/15/2020

In 2060, after climate devastation forced humanity to reduce its population to three billion, having children is socially unacceptable. Miriam has always followed the rules - until she starts wondering what she's missing.

fictionshort-stories
1 hour
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Stories of Your Life and Others

by Ted Chiang

4.0
4/9/2020

A collection of eight brilliant science fiction short stories that explore the nature of consciousness, free will, language, and what it means to be human. Includes "Story of Your Life," the basis for the film Arrival.

fictionscience-fiction
5 hours
Deception Point by Dan Brown

Deception Point

by Dan Brown

5.0
1/11/2020

A high-stakes thriller involving a NASA discovery in the Arctic that could change everything, if the political conspiracy surrounding it doesn't destroy it first.

fictionthriller
12 hours
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