Sea of Tranquility / Emily St. John Mandel: A story that takes the reader from an island off Vancouver in 1912 to a dark colony of the moon three hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and planets.

Project Hail Mary / Andy Weir: The sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission to save both humanity and the earth, Ryland Grace is hurtled into the depths of space when he must conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.

Goldilocks / Laura Lam: A gripping science fiction thriller where five women task themselves with ensuring the survival of the human race.

Fifty in reverse / Bill Flanagan: Peter Wyatt falls asleep in 2020 as a 65-year-old man, only to wake up back in his life as a 15-year-old. He tries to figure out how he's going to find his way back to his life, and his family, in 2020.

To sleep in a sea of stars / Christopher Paolini: During a mission on an uncolonized planet, Kira finds an alien relic. This encounter kicks off a series of events with troubling consequences for the human race.

Hearts of oak / Eddie Robson: The buildings grow, and the city expands. And the people of the land are starting to behave abnormally, or perhaps they've always behaved that way, and it's normality that's at fault.

An absolutely remarkable thing / Hank Green: A tale about a young woman who becomes an overnight celebrity before realizing she's part of something bigger, and stranger, than anyone could have possibly imagined.

Remote control / Nnedi Okorafor: A story about Africanfuturist strain that knows aliens exist, quietly shows how technology is influenced by culture, features a powerful yet deeply-pained female protagonist, and wonders about the role of corporations.

Reason for existence / by Richard Botelho: A plot to exterminate humans by a hostile group could be thwarted if extraterretrial human David Jacobs helps the U.N. in an escalating nuclear crisis.

The midnight library / Matt Haig: Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived.

I, robot / Isaac Asimov: The development of robot technology to a state of perfection by future civilizations is explored in nine science fiction stories.

Meru / S.B. Divya: In a future where human life has been restricted to Earth, two alloys are sent to test the habitability of an Earthlike planet called Meru, an unoccupied new world.