The Scorch Trials
Thomas and the Gladers cross a burned wasteland to reach haven while WICKED watches.
2,097-word summary · 9 min read
Tag: science fiction
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Station Eleven
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
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
Foundation
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
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
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
Flowers for Algernon
Charlie Gordon's experimental surgery makes him a genius, then the mouse Algernon starts to slip.
2,074-word summary · 9 min read
The Martian
Mark Watney is stranded on Mars after his crew leaves him for dead, and survives with botany, repairs, and stubborn humor.
2,271-word summary · 10 min read
The Host
Stephenie Meyer imagines Earth settled by Souls, where Wanderer wakes inside Melanie Stryder and hears her voice refuse to fade, sparking a desert flight to…
2,288-word summary · 10 min read
Shatter Me
Juliette Ferrars, whose touch kills, is locked up by the Reestablishment until Adam and Warner pull her into war.
2,115-word summary · 9 min read
Ready Player One
In 2045 Wade Watts hunts Halliday's three keys inside the OASIS, racing IOI with Art3mis, Aech, Daito and Shoto for the Jade Key onward.
1,971-word summary · 9 min read
Jurassic Park
Hammond clones dinosaurs on Isla Nublar and invites Grant, Sattler and Malcolm to certify safety before opening.
2,388-word summary · 11 min read
Cinder
Cyborg mechanic Cinder discovers she is Lunar royalty while plague and Queen Levana threaten New Beijing.
3,553-word summary · 16 min read
Allegiant
Tris and Tobias leave walled Chicago to learn what lies past the fence. Allegiant closes the Divergent trilogy with Bureau secrets, exile, and a painful final…
2,155-word summary · 10 min read
A Wrinkle in Time
Meg Murry, Charles Wallace and Calvin tessar past Mrs Whatsit, Mrs Who and Mrs Which to Camazotz to free Mr Murry from IT.
2,055-word summary · 9 min read
The Maze Runner
Maze Runner retold: Thomas wakes in Glade, walls move, Grievers sting, Teresa triggers end.
1,907-word summary · 8 min read
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide retold: Earth's end, Ford, Zaphod, Marvin, and the answer 42.
2,253-word summary · 10 min read
The Handmaid's Tale
Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale retold: Offred in Gilead, the Commander, Serena Joy, Mayday, and the van.
2,369-word summary · 11 min read
The Giver
Lois Lowry's The Giver retold: Jonas's Assignment, the memories, release, and the sled ride out.
2,510-word summary · 11 min read
Slaughterhouse-Five
Billy Pilgrim slips through time from Dresden to Tralfamadore in Vonnegut's short antiwar classic.
2,722-word summary · 12 min read
Insurgent
Insurgent retold: Tris guilty after war, Erudite hunts Divergent, Amity talks, Candor serum.
1,951-word summary · 9 min read
Frankenstein
Frankenstein retold: Victor builds, the creature wakes, Arctic letters, demand and refusal.
1,901-word summary · 8 min read
Fahrenheit 451
Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 retold: Montag burns books, meets Clarisse, hides books, and follows the river to the readers.
2,336-word summary · 10 min read