The best 15 sci-fi books to keep you hooked this vacation

The science-fiction genre is not essentially for the scientifically inclined. The genre is attractive to readers of all sorts, especially the ones who want to delve deeper into the unknown, explained by an essential scientific language and terms, typically fictitious. Sci-fi fans love these books for the typical components they employ: warfare, genetically-modified species, alien forces, outer space, and a new imagined technology that make the books more adventurous, thrilling, and speculates that the future may not always be pretty. Here is a list of 10 best science fiction novels that will keep the readers latched on till the very end.
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Seconds before Earth is destroyed to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is taken off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher. Together, they embark on an epic journey of a lifetime!
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The book by Jules Verne focusses on German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth. Otto, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans descend into the Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull, encountering many breathtaking adventures.
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In this dystopian future, Guy Montag, is a fireman for whom kerosene is like perfume. His occupation is his slogan, his mantra, a duty, a way of life in a tightly monitored world where thinking is dangerous and books are forbidden. In this dystopian future, Guy Montag, is a fireman for whom kerosene is like perfume. His occupation is his slogan, his mantra, a duty, a way of life in a tightly monitored world where thinking is dangerous and books are forbidden.
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The horrific classic novel follows the story of Victor Frankenstein and his creation, an offspring of science and nature, who turns on him and becomes a monster. The book is a take on the tradition of othering the unknown and the genetically deformed, deeming them suitable only as circus performers or are left abandoned to die.
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This dystopian novel where a young woman, Aomame, following a taxi driver’s suggestion to notice discrepancies going around in life, enters a parallel existence and in course, her narrative converges with the aspiring writer’s, Tengo.
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The story follows a dangerous encounter by American astronaut, Mark Watney, as he becomes stranded alone on Mars in the year 2035, and must improvise in order to survive in an alien land.
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Set in 2130s, the story involves a 50-kilometre (31 mi) cylindrical alien starship that enters Earth's solar system. The story is told from the point of view of a group of human explorers who intercept the ship in an attempt to unlock its mysteries.
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Huxley, inspired by the Utopian narratives by H.G Wells, sought to chronicle a future complete opposite of Well’s world. The book presents a hedonistic environment, where World Controllers have created an illusion of a happy environment through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, all its members are happy consumers. This is soon realized to be one completely undesired place to live.
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Burgess' exploration of the impact of technology on human life and consciousness is extremely relevant today as it was when he wrote it. The book is lauded for its wild use of language, which mixes British slang with Slavic influences, but is equally powerful with depicting the technology that triggers protagonist Alex's transition from a teenage street tough to a suicidal vagabond.
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This is a story about Martian attack on earth, written before humans took to the skies. The unearthly creatures are destructive and vile, whereas humans remain powerless against them. But there is one factor which the Martians, in spite of their superior intelligence, have not reckoned on.
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The book talks about the human race which has become infertile, and the last generation to be born has reached adulthood. England, ruled by the Warden, has become a society where the weak are encouraged to kill themselves, immigrants are enslaved, and criminals exiled.
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This book is Vonnegut's pure sci-fi masterpiece, dispensing with the horrors of World War II to fully investigate the horrors of human existence.
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Cat’s Cradle follows Dr Felix Hoenikker, one of the inventors of the atomic bomb, has left a deadly legacy to the world. He is the inventor of 'ice-nine', a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. The search for this weapon leads his three children to a crazy Caribbean dictator.
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In I, Robot, Asimov chronicles the development of the robot through a series of interlinked stories: from its origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete.
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This book unravels a new universe of enormous possibilities—a series of parallel “Earths” with doorways leading to adventure, intrigue, excitement, and an escape into the furthest reaches of the imagination.
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