Space
The infinite mysteries of space and humanity's quest to understand them come alive through the words of pioneering scientists, visionary leaders, and brilliant minds who've shaped our cosmic journey. These compelling works explore everything from black holes and parallel universes to Mars missions and space innovation, illuminating both the technical marvels and profound questions about our place among the stars.
Space Book Summaries
Elon Musk
$180 million on rockets and electric cars, saved on Christmas Eve by hours.
Biography
Business
Technology
Science
Entrepreneurship
Immersive
Elon Musk
$180 million on rockets and electric cars, saved on Christmas Eve by hours.
Biography
Business
Technology
Science
Entrepreneurship
A Brief History of Time
A universe from nothing, glowing black holes, and the question physics still cannot answer.
Science
Philosophy
Classics
History
Space
Immersive
A Brief History of Time
A universe from nothing, glowing black holes, and the question physics still cannot answer.
Science
Philosophy
Classics
History
Space
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Time travel might work, but the feedback loop of climate disaster probably kills us first.
Science
Physics
Philosophy
Technology
Space
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Time travel might work, but the feedback loop of climate disaster probably kills us first.
Science
Physics
Philosophy
Technology
Space
Rendezvous with Rama
A giant alien cylinder enters the solar system; the crew inside finds a silent world awakening.
Science Fiction
Classics
Space
Aliens
Speculative Fiction
Rendezvous with Rama
A giant alien cylinder enters the solar system; the crew inside finds a silent world awakening.
Science Fiction
Classics
Space
Aliens
Speculative Fiction
The Road to Reality
Physics, equation by equation: the complete mathematical tour from arithmetic to quantum fields.
Science
Mathematics
Philosophy
Reference
Space
The Road to Reality
Physics, equation by equation: the complete mathematical tour from arithmetic to quantum fields.
Science
Mathematics
Philosophy
Reference
Space
Cosmos
From exploding stars to conscious minds: a cosmic journey that ends with a choice.
Science
Space
Physics
History
Philosophy
Cosmos
From exploding stars to conscious minds: a cosmic journey that ends with a choice.
Science
Space
Physics
History
Philosophy
Orbital
One day in orbit: six astronauts, sixteen sunrises, a typhoon's eye, and a beautiful fragile Earth.
Literary Fiction
Science Fiction
Space
Contemporary
Adult
Orbital
One day in orbit: six astronauts, sixteen sunrises, a typhoon's eye, and a beautiful fragile Earth.
Literary Fiction
Science Fiction
Space
Contemporary
Adult
Death's End
Humanity's last defense is a woman chosen for her mercy. The aliens are counting on it.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Space
Aliens
Speculative Fiction
Immersive
Death's End
Humanity's last defense is a woman chosen for her mercy. The aliens are counting on it.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Space
Aliens
Speculative Fiction
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Space bends. Time is an illusion. Seven short lessons on the universe as it actually is.
Science
Philosophy
Essays
Space
Audiobooks
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Space bends. Time is an illusion. Seven short lessons on the universe as it actually is.
Science
Philosophy
Essays
Space
Audiobooks
A Rover's Story
When a Mars rover starts to feel, his search for water becomes a search for belonging.
Middle Grade
Science Fiction
Children's
Adventure
Space
A Rover's Story
When a Mars rover starts to feel, his search for water becomes a search for belonging.
Middle Grade
Science Fiction
Children's
Adventure
Space
Solaris
A psychologist at a remote space station finds his dead wife remade by the alien ocean.
Science Fiction
Classics
Philosophy
Literature
20th Century
Solaris
A psychologist at a remote space station finds his dead wife remade by the alien ocean.
Science Fiction
Classics
Philosophy
Literature
20th Century
Project Hail Mary
He wakes alone with no memory on an interstellar mission to stop a star-killing plague.
Science Fiction
Space
Aliens
Adventure
Thriller
Immersive
Project Hail Mary
He wakes alone with no memory on an interstellar mission to stop a star-killing plague.
Science Fiction
Space
Aliens
Adventure
Thriller
The Dark Forest
Alien spies read every plan. One unwilling man is given absolute power to save the world in secrecy.
Science Fiction
Aliens
Thriller
China
Dystopian
The Dark Forest
Alien spies read every plan. One unwilling man is given absolute power to save the world in secrecy.
Science Fiction
Aliens
Thriller
China
Dystopian
A Fire Upon the Deep
A galaxy-devouring intelligence awakens. Stranded on an alien world, two siblings are the only hope.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Space
Aliens
Speculative Fiction
A Fire Upon the Deep
A galaxy-devouring intelligence awakens. Stranded on an alien world, two siblings are the only hope.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Space
Aliens
Speculative Fiction
Light Bringer
Defeated and hunted, Darrow must unite bitter rivals to stop a warlord burning the outer worlds.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Dystopia
War
Epic
Light Bringer
Defeated and hunted, Darrow must unite bitter rivals to stop a warlord burning the outer worlds.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Dystopia
War
Epic
The Foundation Trilogy
The galactic empire is dying. One mathematician plants two foundations to shorten the dark age.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Classics
Speculative Fiction
Epic
The Foundation Trilogy
The galactic empire is dying. One mathematician plants two foundations to shorten the dark age.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Classics
Speculative Fiction
Epic
The Science of Interstellar
Black holes bend time. Wormholes need exotic matter. Interstellar's physicist explains.
Science
Physics
Space
Film
Exploration
The Science of Interstellar
Black holes bend time. Wormholes need exotic matter. Interstellar's physicist explains.
Science
Physics
Space
Film
Exploration
Revelation Space
A disgraced archaeologist unearths an alien genocide as a plague ship arrives to claim his mind.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Space
Aliens
Speculative Fiction
Revelation Space
A disgraced archaeologist unearths an alien genocide as a plague ship arrives to claim his mind.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Space
Aliens
Speculative Fiction
The Martian
Stranded on Mars, a botanist farms potatoes and fights to signal Earth before his food disappears.
Science Fiction
Adult
Space
Survival
Adventure
Immersive
The Martian
Stranded on Mars, a botanist farms potatoes and fights to signal Earth before his food disappears.
Science Fiction
Adult
Space
Survival
Adventure
Anathem
A cloistered scholar stumbles onto his order's secret: an alien ship from a parallel universe.
Science Fiction
Philosophy
Speculative Fiction
Space Opera
Aliens
Anathem
A cloistered scholar stumbles onto his order's secret: an alien ship from a parallel universe.
Science Fiction
Philosophy
Speculative Fiction
Space Opera
Aliens
All Systems Red
Security cyborg hacks chip, just wants serials. Rival team dies; it must choose: hide, or save them.
Science Fiction
Adult
Space
Novella
Mystery
All Systems Red
Security cyborg hacks chip, just wants serials. Rival team dies; it must choose: hide, or save them.
Science Fiction
Adult
Space
Novella
Mystery
The Three-Body Problem
A ghost countdown draws a physicist into a three-sun game hiding an alien invasion already underway.
Science Fiction
China
Aliens
Speculative Fiction
Space
Immersive
The Three-Body Problem
A ghost countdown draws a physicist into a three-sun game hiding an alien invasion already underway.
Science Fiction
China
Aliens
Speculative Fiction
Space
Consider Phlebas
To save a crumbling empire, a shapeshifter must steal a runaway supermind from a dead world.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Space
Aliens
War
Consider Phlebas
To save a crumbling empire, a shapeshifter must steal a runaway supermind from a dead world.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Space
Aliens
War
Reality is Not What it Seems
The universe has no bottom: particles dissolve into fields, space into grains, time into ignorance.
Science
Philosophy
History
Audiobooks
Education
Reality is Not What it Seems
The universe has no bottom: particles dissolve into fields, space into grains, time into ignorance.
Science
Philosophy
History
Audiobooks
Education
Beautyland
An alien observer's human life of love and loss is upended by the summons to return home.
Literary Fiction
Science Fiction
Contemporary
Coming Of Age
Women
Beautyland
An alien observer's human life of love and loss is upended by the summons to return home.
Literary Fiction
Science Fiction
Contemporary
Coming Of Age
Women
Exodus
A disgraced noble hunts alien tech, unaware his crewmate steers him toward genocide.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Adult
Space
Speculative Fiction
Immersive
Exodus
A disgraced noble hunts alien tech, unaware his crewmate steers him toward genocide.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Adult
Space
Speculative Fiction
Children of Time
Earth's last ark reaches a green world where spiders have cities and the monkeys never arrived.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Space
Aliens
Speculative Fiction
Children of Time
Earth's last ark reaches a green world where spiders have cities and the monkeys never arrived.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Space
Aliens
Speculative Fiction
The Mercy of Gods
His world decimated by alien conquerors, a scientist must prove his species deserves to survive.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Aliens
Adult
Space
The Mercy of Gods
His world decimated by alien conquerors, a scientist must prove his species deserves to survive.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Aliens
Adult
Space
Children of Ruin
A mission to an octopus civilization sparks war and wakes a parasite that learns by consuming minds.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Aliens
Space
Adult
Immersive
Children of Ruin
A mission to an octopus civilization sparks war and wakes a parasite that learns by consuming minds.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Aliens
Space
Adult
The Hidden Reality
A single unsettling destination modern physics keeps reaching: our universe is not the only one.
Science
Philosophy
Space
Popular
Mathematics
The Hidden Reality
A single unsettling destination modern physics keeps reaching: our universe is not the only one.
Science
Philosophy
Space
Popular
Mathematics
The Universe in a Nutshell
How can a three-dimensional universe be a flat hologram? The physics that points toward an answer.
Science
Physics
Space
Time Travel
The Universe in a Nutshell
How can a three-dimensional universe be a flat hologram? The physics that points toward an answer.
Science
Physics
Space
Time Travel
Godblight
His daemon brother returns with a plague to kill a demigod, and the Emperor gives only silence.
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Space Opera
Dark Fantasy
War
Godblight
His daemon brother returns with a plague to kill a demigod, and the Emperor gives only silence.
Science Fiction
Fantasy
Space Opera
Dark Fantasy
War
A Briefer History of Time
Why time only runs forward, how black holes evaporate, and where physics must start over.
Science
History
Philosophy
Space
Education
A Briefer History of Time
Why time only runs forward, how black holes evaporate, and where physics must start over.
Science
History
Philosophy
Space
Education
Leviathan Falls
Bonded to alien technology, Jim Holden can stop the hive mind only by collapsing every ring gate.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Space
Adult
Aliens
Leviathan Falls
Bonded to alien technology, Jim Holden can stop the hive mind only by collapsing every ring gate.
Science Fiction
Space Opera
Space
Adult
Aliens
Stranger in a Strange Land
A human raised on Mars returns to Earth with impossible powers and a gospel of radical love.
Science Fiction
Classics
Philosophy
Religion
Speculative Fiction
Stranger in a Strange Land
A human raised on Mars returns to Earth with impossible powers and a gospel of radical love.
Science Fiction
Classics
Philosophy
Religion
Speculative Fiction
