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Top 5 Sci-Fi Books on Goodreads
Goodreads' most-read sci-fi books this week: Dinniman's dungeon mystery, Robb's futuristic murder, and Mandel's time-travel tale.
In brief
Goodreads' most-read sci-fi books this week: Dinniman's dungeon mystery, Robb's futuristic murder, and Mandel's time-travel tale. Matt Dinniman's 'The Eye of the Bedlam Bride' leads Goodreads' sci-fi list with 63 new releases, while Emily St. John Mandel's 'Sea of Tranquility' and Becky Chambers' 'A Psalm for the…
Top Sci-Fi Book on Goodreads
Matt Dinniman's 'The Eye of the Bedlam Bride' tops Goodreads' sci-fi list as the sixth Dungeon Crawler Carl installment.
“When I first started writing [Dungeon Crawler Carl], I was writing a very simple straightforward story about a dude and his cat on an alien game show.”
J.D. Robb's New Release
J.D. Robb's 'Fury in Death' is the 63rd installment in his futuristic In Death series, set in 2058 New York.
“I wanted to try something a little different. I love writing romance and suspense, but I also wanted a twist.”
Emily St. John Mandel's Book
Emily St. John Mandel's 'Sea of Tranquility' spans centuries, connecting 1912 wilderness experiences with a moon colony in 2400.
“I thought, 'Why not try things that I never thought I’d try before? Everything’s awful, so I’m just going to write whatever I want.'”
Alexis Patton's Trilogy
Alexis Patton's 'Us Defiant Few' concludes her dystopian Us Dark Few trilogy with characters escaping imprisonment and searching for Project Helix.
“I love video games and dystopian books. The Giver was a huge inspiration for me as well as Divergent.”
Becky Chambers' Novel
Becky Chambers' 'A Psalm for the Wild-Built' follows tea monk Sibling Dex on a quest to find what people need in a post-robot society.
“A soft spot for tea, farms, cob houses, bugs, green roofs, and overgrown buildings.”
Dungeon Crawler Carl Series
Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl series began as a simple alien game show story but evolved into a complex political plot.
“I’ll start writing something and discover, 'Oh, I need to know about the Queen’s corgis,' for example.”
Fury in Death Details
J.D. Robb's 'Fury in Death' features NYPSD detective Eve Dallas investigating a biotech executive's murder in a near-future New York setting.
“I could illustrate my own feeling that while the toys may change, people remain basically the same.”
Sea of Tranquility Story
Emily St. John Mandel's 'Sea of Tranquility' mixes time travel, pandemic fiction, and reality questions through centuries of interconnected lives.
“The way to make time travel work for myself, as the writer, was to have a character in the year 2400 saying, 'We don’t really understand why time travel works as well as it does.'”
Us Defiant Few Plot
Alexis Patton's 'Us Defiant Few' involves Khalani and Takeshi escaping imprisonment, with Takeshi losing his memory and searching for Project Helix.
“Ultimately, I had a dream about the characters in my book and I knew the dream took place in prison.”
A Psalm for the Wild-Built
Becky Chambers' 'A Psalm for the Wild-Built' explores purpose and humanity through tea monk Sibling Dex and robot Splendid Speckled Mosscap.
“What do people need? The first Monk & Robot novella uses their developing friendship to explore purpose, contentment, humanity’s relationship with technology.”
Goodreads List Highlights
The top five sci-fi books on Goodreads this week include both new releases and titles popular years after publication.
“Science fiction has always been a genre where almost anything goes, and the sci-fi books readers can’t get enough of on Goodreads this week certainly prove it.”
Author Insights
Authors describe their sci-fi books' origins, from Mandel's pandemic-inspired autofiction to Chambers' solarpunk themes.
“I’d also been wanting for a really long time to write a time travel story.”
In short
Matt Dinniman's 'The Eye of the Bedlam Bride' leads Goodreads' sci-fi list with 63 new releases, while Emily St. John Mandel's 'Sea of Tranquility' and Becky Chambers' 'A Psalm for the Wild-Built' remain popular years after publication.
