Tag: science fiction

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Scarlet

Marissa Meyer · 2013

Scarlet searches for her grandmother with Wolf while escaped Cinder fights Levana in the Lunar Chronicles sequel.

2,756-word summary · 12 min read

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick · 1968

Bounty hunter Rick Deckard retires escaped androids in ruined San Francisco while doubting what empathy still means.

2,841-word summary · 13 min read

Delirium

Lauren Oliver · 2011

In a America where love is treated as disease, Lena Haloway counts down to her Cure until she meets Alex in Portland.

2,425-word summary · 11 min read

Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 1963

Jonah researches the atom bomb and finds ice-nine and Bokononism on San Lorenzo.

2,583-word summary · 11 min read

The Time Machine

H.G. Wells · 1895

Wells sends a Victorian inventor to the year 802,701, where idle Eloi and blind Morlocks share a dark human fate.

2,335-word summary · 10 min read

The Scorch Trials

James Dashner · 2010

Thomas and the Gladers cross a burned wasteland to reach haven while WICKED watches.

2,097-word summary · 9 min read

Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel · 2014

After a flu empties the world, a traveling troupe plays Shakespeare for small towns linked by one dead actor.

2,480-word summary · 11 min read

Red Rising

Pierce Brown · 2014

Darrow, a Red miner on Mars, loses his wife and is remade as a Gold to infiltrate the Institute, where teens wage war for power and he plots revolution.

2,111-word summary · 9 min read

Legend

Marie Lu · 2011

Day and June collide in the Republic: he is wanted for murder, she hunts him, then learns the truth about Metias and the plague.

2,609-word summary · 12 min read

Foundation

Isaac Asimov · 1951

Seldon predicts the Empire will fall and seeds Terminus to cut the dark age to a thousand years.

2,706-word summary · 12 min read

Dark Matter

Blake Crouch · 2016

Abducted from his Chicago family, Jason Dessen wakes in a life he never chose and fights through worlds to return.

2,707-word summary · 12 min read

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir · 2021

A teacher wakes alone on a ship with dead crewmates and must solve why the sun is dimming to save Earth.

2,293-word summary · 10 min read