Oryx and Crake
Snowman lives alone after the plague with Crake's green-eyed Children, remembering Jimmy, Crake and Oryx.
3,026-word summary · 13 min read
Tag: science fiction
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Leviathan Wakes
A destroyed ice hauler, a missing heiress, and an alien growth pull a crew and a tired detective toward war across the solar system.
3,653-word summary · 16 min read
Golden Son
Darrow serves House Augustus as a Gold officer while plotting revolt, until a gala refusal, a duel with Cassius, and a Triumph betrayal break his rise.
2,747-word summary · 12 min read
Destroy Me
Shot by Juliette, Warner holds his base together while his father arrives with harsher plans for her.
2,556-word summary · 11 min read
Artemis
Jazz Bashara, a porter and small-time smuggler in the Moon city Artemis, takes a sabotage job that drags her into a fight for the city.
2,863-word summary · 13 min read
2001: A Space Odyssey
A black slab nudges apes to tools, calls Floyd to the Moon, and pulls Bowman past HAL toward Saturn and a strange rebirth.
2,982-word summary · 13 min read
The Three-Body Problem
A physicist meets a secret from the Cultural Revolution and a game that models a dying alien sky.
2,465-word summary · 11 min read
The Testaments
Aunt Lydia, Agnes and Nicole conspire to bring down Gilead fifteen years later.
2,516-word summary · 11 min read
Scythe
Citra and Rowan become apprentice scythes who must glean one another.
2,574-word summary · 11 min read
Saga, Volume 1
Alana and Marko flee a galaxy-wide war with baby Hazel, hunted by both sides.
2,200-word summary · 10 min read
Neuromancer
Washed Case hired Armitage run Wintermute cyberspace heist.
2,598-word summary · 12 min read
Klara and the Sun
Solar robot Klara loves Josie and bargains with the Sun to save her.
2,251-word summary · 10 min read
I Am Number Four
Alien teen Four hides in Ohio and develops Legacies with Sam and Sarah.
2,335-word summary · 10 min read
Dune Messiah
Emperor Paul faces jihad fallout as Bene Gesserit and Tleilaxu plot with ghola Duncan to break him.
2,593-word summary · 12 min read
Cress
Imprisoned hacker Cress joins Cinder Scarlet Wolf Thorne to stop Levana's wedding to Kai.
2,534-word summary · 11 min read
The Death Cure
Thomas refuses WICKED's final test, remembers too much, and runs with the Gladers toward a last cure and a ship north.
2,955-word summary · 13 min read
The 5th Wave
Cassie Sullivan crosses ruined Ohio to save Sammy after four alien waves, trusting Evan Walker while doubting him.
3,063-word summary · 14 min read
Scarlet
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?
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
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
Jonah researches the atom bomb and finds ice-nine and Bokononism on San Lorenzo.
2,583-word summary · 11 min read
The Time Machine
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