Science fiction is the perfect genre if you’re a reader who loves to be challenged. It requires readers to explore new worlds, characters, and concepts. As such, reading science fiction can help you test your limits and keep you interested in reading more. Reading science fiction will enable you to explore themes that are relevant to our own lives today. Whether it’s exploring the impact of artificial intelligence or parallel universes, books set on other planets or even in future cities are bound to have something for readers of all tastes and interests. The best online libraries like z-library, Project Gutenberg, and ManyBooks offer the latest best sci-fi eBooks. Here are some excellent science fiction eBooks that will get you hooked:
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
A Wrinkle in Time is a classic for a good reason. It’s a head trip of a book, full of magic and wonder. It’s a coming-of-age story and a story about female empowerment. It’s a story about coming to terms with the infinite possibilities that space and time offer. It’s a story about love conquering all, and it’s an excellent read for any age. If you need a science fiction book full of magic and wonder, A Wrinkle in Time is the place to start. A Wrinkle in Time is the story of young Meg Murray, a teenage girl who doesn’t believe in science fiction, which is taken to a new planet called Out-space by her scientist parents to find Meg a new home. Along the way, Meg and her new friend, Calvin, meet three celestial beings who help Meg understand her new powers and how to use them to return home. A Wrinkle in Time is an excellent read for readers of any age.
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale is about a future dystopia where women are treated as property. They are not allowed to read, work or leave the house without a“handmaid(a woman who is a slave to the woman’s every need) and their every desire. Offred is a handmaid. She lives with her husband Fred, the commander of the household, and the other couples in the commander’s party, who have been stripped of their rights and freedoms to be a mere decoration in the house of the commander’s wife. Offred is not allowed to read, but she secretly tries to pass on knowledge to her daughter, a little girl. When she sees a list of forbidden books in the newspaper, she realizes that they are not just banned books but also forbidden thoughts. When Offred meets the mysterious and dangerous Luke at a party, she must decide what she believes.
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Ready Player One is set shortly when people spend time competing in the real-life video game OASIS, a virtual reality where anyone can create their own avatars and explore virtual worlds. Wade Watts is a teenager in search of the clues to the Easter egg Hunt before anyone else because whoever finds the egg first gets to win the fortune. In doing so, Wade makes friends with another teenager, Simon, and they team up to help each other win. Together, they enter the world of the OASIS, a virtual reality world that is very popular with people of all ages. When Wade discovers a clue to the Easter egg Hunt, he is surprised to find that his avatar, Parzival, is already in the world of the OASIS and is being hunted by other players. Wade, Parzival, and Simon must work together to survive long enough to win the Easter egg Hunt and find out what the real world has to do with their virtual adventure.
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Martian is about a botanist stranded on Mars and must survive on his own until he is rescued. The botanist, an astrophysicist, is trying to get to the Jet Propulsion Lab in California to meet with his NASA boss. Still, his spacesuit gets stuck in an airlock, and he suffocates. He is rescued by an astronaut named Mark, who thinks the botanist is a con artist. The botanist must decide whether he will try to con his way out of the situation or cooperate with Mark and try to survive until he is rescued.
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash is the story of a young hacker named Hiro who is trying to make a living by writing computer viruses, but he gets fed up with the low pay and the sexism of his job and decides to start his own company. Hiro meets a young woman named Naoko at a party, and they begin dating, but things get complicated when Naoko gets kidnapped by a computer hacker named Juan. Hiro is abducted by Juan’s gang and discovers that they have planted a bomb inside all the computers they have hacked, destroying everything, and they will lose all the data forever. Hiro must decide whether he should help Juan destroy the data or try to stop him and save his company and all the data.
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The Forever War is about a young man named Gaius Pontar, who has been dreaming of the day when he can go to war with the Aldeneshi race and fight for freedom from their enslavement. But when Gaius turns 17, he is sent to the military school, humiliated and abused, and kept in the dark about his true destiny. Gaius’s first battle ends in disaster, and he is separated from his friends and comrades when a firestorm destroys their ship. He survives the disaster only because he is saved by a woman who he falls in love with. After the war, Gaius returns home to find out that his father has been arrested and is to be executed for reasons that Gaius is not allowed to know. Gaius must decide whether to save his father or trust his instincts and rebel against the system that keeps him in the dark.
Final Thoughts
Science fiction books are great for readers of all ages because they help them explore new themes and places. They can also help readers develop their writing skills because they need to learn how to set up their stories and plot their novels. Science fiction books are a great way to keep readers engaged and interested in reading. Access free and up-to-date sci-fi eBooks with Zlibrary, PDF Drive, or Internet Archive!
