Science Fiction can be fun
Explore the best science fiction books that make reading fun! Dive into thrilling adventures, futuristic worlds, and mind-bending stories with our top picks for sci-fi lovers.
Book
The Masque of Manana
by Robert Sheckley
The 45 pieces in this stellar collection, though they include some soberer entries (e.g., "A Wind Is Rising"), make it clear that Sheckley is one of sf's all-time masters of the humorous or satirical short story.
Book
The Great Explosion
by Eric Frank Russell
In less than a century, 50 percent of the human race fled the aged and autocratic Terra, settling wherever they could establish a world of their own choosing. The following centuries result in hundreds of independent new civilizations--too independent for an ambitious Terran government out to conquer an empire.
Book
The Galactic Gourmet
by James White
The finest chef in the galactic federation, Gurronsevas, a huge, six-leged alien, confronts his ultimate challenge: to transform hospital food into something palatable
Book
The Flight of the Horse
by Larry Niven
A series of adventures and misadventures await Svetz, an operative for the Institute for Temporal Research who travels back and forth through time in a special extension cage
Book
The Dancers at the End of Time
by Michael Moorcock
The Eternal Champion series continues with "The Dancers at the End of Time", a monumental science-fiction epic blending humor and romance in a story that spans all of space and time. Can love blossom the a millennia? In world where "conscience" and "morality" are meaningless? In a multiverse that is collapsing and racing toward the brink of destruction? This tenth volume of the Eternal Champion series makes the complete omnibus of this incredible story available in paperback for the first time.
Book
Bill, the Galactic Hero
by Harry Harrison
Featuring a new Introduction by the author, this sci-fi classic stars Bill, apure-hearted fool fighting a deluxe cast of robots, androids, and aliens in anever-ending losing battle to preserve his humanity while upholding the gloryof the empire.
Book
Red Dwarf
by Grant Naylor
One of the funniest, most glorious science fiction experiences to come along since Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's series, Red Dwarf is a monumental British bestseller and the hilarious BBC-TV hit currently syndicated in 35 U.S. markets. After a pub crawl birthday celebration, Lister comes to his senses aboard a city-sized spaceship that's headed back to Earth--three million years in the future.
Book
Better Than Life
by Grant Naylor
A wild and wacky SF series--based on the popular BBC-TV series--reminiscent of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Lister--who passed out drunk in London and awakened in a locker on a moon of Saturn--now finds himself trapped in a computer game that transports players to the perfect world of their imaginations--a game people are literally dying to play.
Book
The Lighter Side
by Keith Laumer
Two complete novels in one volume feature hapless heroes caught in an out-of-kilter spacetime clockwork: Chester W. Chester IV, who has inherited his great-grandfather's lifework--a super computer that can bring any situation or time to life; and Roger Tyson, who is being pursued through time by a motorcycle-riding, rutabaga-like alien in a world where eras millions of years apart have been combined into an insane smorgasbord of eons.
Book
Retief!
by Keith Laumer
This novel and collection of stories have previously appeared in parts in "Envoy to New Worlds, Galactic Diplomat, " and "Retief's War." Exploring the origins of the Corps Diplomatique, the background of Retief is told for the first time.