Sci-fi
Every sci-fi author we cover, with each series in the right reading order.
Science fiction asks what happens next — to our technology, our societies, and us — and follows the thought all the way out. These series are best read in sequence, as the ideas build.
Pierce Brown
Pierce Brown is an American author who writes young adult fantasy novels, best known for the Red Rising series that...
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Celeste Ng
Celeste Ng is an American novelist whose domestic dramas explore family secrets, identity, and the fault lines of community. Born...
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Ernest Cline
Ernest Cline is an American author of science fiction novels and a screenwriter. He is also a spoken word artist....
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Gabrielle Zevin
What happens when a writer understands both the architecture of story and the ache of human connection? Gabrielle Zevin happens....
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Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt is an American novelist who became a literary sensation in 1992 with The Secret History, a debut that...
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James Maxwell
James Maxwell made his debut as a novelist in 2012 with Enchantress, a fantasy novel that introduced readers to his...
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Matthew FitzSimmons
Matthew FitzSimmons writes thrillers, drawing on a transatlantic sensibility shaped by growing up between worlds, born in Illinois and raised...
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Hanya Yanagihara
Hanya Yanagihara is an American novelist, journalist, and travel writer who has built a career spanning fiction and editorial work....
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Victoria Aveline
Victoria Aveline writes science fiction romance, creating worlds that explore a unique power dynamic within dominant relationships. She is known...
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James Islington
James Islington is an Australian fantasy novelist who made his debut in 2014 with The Shadow of What Was Lost,...
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Amy Tintera
Amy Tintera is an American author of young adult fantasy novels and adult thrillers. She grew up in Austin, Texas,...
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Justin Cronin
Justin Cronin is an American author of horror and science fiction. Raised in New England, he is a graduate of...
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Katie Sise
Katie Sise is an American novelist who writes domestic suspense centered on women navigating secrets and lies. Her sixth novel,...
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Laurie Frankel
Laurie Frankel is an American author who writes novels, teaches writing, and has a background in gender studies. She made...
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Nicola Yoon
Nicola Yoon is a Jamaican-American novelist who writes young adult romance, and she has also co-authored collaborative fiction. She grew...
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Noah Hawley
Noah Hawley is an American author of literary fiction. He is also an Emmy, Golden Globe, PEN, Critics’ Choice, and...
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T.J. Newman
T.J. Newman is an American thriller novelist who writes high-altitude suspense drawn straight from her years as a flight attendant....
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Stuart Turton
Stuart Turton is a British author who writes high-concept mysteries that twist time, identity, and logic into something entirely new....
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James D. Prescott
James D. Prescott is an author who writes thrillers that weaponize science and archaeology against conventional wisdom. He is best...
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Susan Ee
Susan Ee is an American novelist who writes young adult fantasy and was a lawyer before turning to fiction full-time....
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Tom Rob Smith
Tom Rob Smith is an English novelist who writes historical fiction and thrillers. He was born in 1979 to a...
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Taran Matharu
Taran Matharu is a fantasy author from London. He began writing his Summoner series at age twenty-two during NaNoWriMo, sharing...
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David Wong
Jason Pargin is an American humor writer who publishes under the pen name David Wong. He is known for the...
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Daniel Suarez
Daniel Suarez is an American author of techno-thriller novels, drawing on a lifelong interest in both technology and writing. Before...
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Chloe Benjamin
Chloe Benjamin is an American novelist who writes literary fiction that blends emotional realism with questions about fate, mortality, and...
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Amanda Bouchet
Amanda Bouchet is an American author who writes fantasy romance and space opera romance, delivering equal parts high-stakes adventure and...
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Jessie Mihalik
Jessie Mihalik is an American author of science fiction novels, making her debut in 2017 with The Queen's Gambit. She...
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Igor Nikolic
Igor Nikolic writes science fiction and urban fantasy. His Space Legacy series is a primary example of his work in...
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Jack Coughlin
Jack Coughlin is an American author of military fiction and a retired Gunnery Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. After...
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SJ Bennett
SJ Bennett is an English novelist who writes cozy mysteries featuring Queen Elizabeth II. She holds a PhD in Modern...
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Daniel O’Malley
Daniel O'Malley is an Australian novelist who writes science fiction and fantasy that blends bureaucracy with the supernatural. Before turning...
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Richard Bard
Richard Bard is an American thriller novelist best known for his Brainrush series, which explores themes of second chances and...
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Kalayna Price
Kalayna Price writes dark urban fantasy novels, known for the Alex Craft Novels and the Novels of Haven. Her career...
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Lou Berney
Lou Berney writes crime fiction novels and has received the Edgar, Hammett, Anthony, Barry, Macavity, Steel Dagger, ALA, and Oklahoma...
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Derek B. Miller
Derek B. Miller is an American author and international affairs specialist who writes crime fiction. He spent over a decade...
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Natasha Pulley
Natasha Pulley writes historical fiction with a commitment to authenticity that takes her around the world. Born in Cambridge and...
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Matthew Quirk
Matthew Quirk is an American author of political thrillers. He made his debut as a novelist in 2012 with The...
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James Wesley Rawles
James Wesley Rawles is an American author of survivalist fiction and nonfiction. He is also a rancher and the founder...
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Rebecca Stead
Rebecca Stead is an American author of children’s novels. She grew up in New York City, developing an early love...
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Xiran Jay Zhao
Xiran Jay Zhao is a Chinese-Canadian author and YouTuber who writes science fiction and fantasy shaped by their Hui Chinese...
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Axie Oh
Axie Oh is an American author who writes young adult fantasy and contemporary romance, often drawing on her Korean heritage...
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Peng Shepherd
Peng Shepherd is an American author of science fiction and fantasy novels. She made her debut in 2018 with The...
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Patrick Lee
Patrick Lee is an American novelist who writes thriller novels. During his twenties, Lee sold two screenplays in Los Angeles,...
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Margarita Montimore
Margarita Montimore is an American author who writes speculative fiction that bends time and reality around deeply human questions. Born...
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J. Todd Scott
J. Todd Scott is an American crime novelist and screenwriter who brings three decades of federal law enforcement experience to...
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Veronica Rossi
Veronica Rossi is an American author who writes young adult dystopian fiction with romance at its heart. Born in Rio...
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Ryan Winfield
Ryan Winfield is an American author who writes the Jane's Melody series and the Park Service trilogy. Growing up, books...
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Jenny Offill
Jenny Offill writes novels that feel like overhearing someone's sharpest, most private thoughts. Raised across multiple states by two private-school...
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Drew Magary
Drew Magary is an American author and columnist who writes both speculative fiction and nonfiction, moving between dystopian novels and...
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C. Robert Cargill
C. Robert Cargill is an American science fiction writer who first reached readers with Dreams and Shadows in 2013, though...
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