For the occasion

Sci-fi for people who say they don't read sci-fi

No spaceship diagrams. No glossary. Just the good stuff, smuggled in.

You have said it at a dinner party: not really my thing. These three are how the genre gets you anyway — through jokes, through feelings, and through one very good robot.

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

One man wakes up alone in space with amnesia and a job to do. Funnier than it has any right to be.

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The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Becky Chambers

Found family, on a spaceship. The warmest book ever set in a vacuum.

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Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro

A solar-powered robot learns to love. A Nobel laureate's sci-fi, so you may say it is literary fiction.

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