Optimistic Space Scifi

1.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 175,428 ratings
2.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) 4.22 avg rating — 1,970,266 ratings
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A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)
A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2) 4.37 avg rating — 84,586 ratings
4.
The Martian
The Martian
by: Andy Weir
4.42 avg rating — 1,239,071 ratings
5.
Quarter Share (Golden Age of the Solar Clipper, #1)
Quarter Share (Golden Age of the Solar Clipper, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 10,375 ratings
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All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 335,439 ratings
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Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3)
Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers, #3) 4.12 avg rating — 56,799 ratings
8.
Binti (Binti, #1)
Binti (Binti, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 78,698 ratings
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Dragonsdawn (Pern, #9)
Dragonsdawn (Pern, #9) 4.23 avg rating — 41,226 ratings
10.
The Ship Who Sang (Brainship, #1)
The Ship Who Sang (Brainship, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 26,298 ratings
11.
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1)
Pandora's Star (Commonwealth Saga, #1) 4.23 avg rating — 52,788 ratings
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Children of Time (Children of Time, #1)
Children of Time (Children of Time, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 160,104 ratings
13.
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
To Be Taught, If Fortunate 4.20 avg rating — 52,569 ratings
14.
To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2)
To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2) 4.11 avg rating — 43,405 ratings
15.
Acorna: The Unicorn Girl (Acorna, #1)
Acorna: The Unicorn Girl (Acorna, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 10,914 ratings
16.
The Left Hand of Darkness
The Left Hand of Darkness 4.10 avg rating — 209,515 ratings
17.
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2)
Children of Ruin (Children of Time, #2) 4.05 avg rating — 55,794 ratings
18.
Project Hail Mary
Project Hail Mary
by: Andy Weir
4.50 avg rating — 870,954 ratings
19.
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 317,271 ratings
20.
Mindtouch (The Dreamhealers, #1)
Mindtouch (The Dreamhealers, #1) 4.26 avg rating — 1,464 ratings
21.
StarBridge (StarBridge, #1)
StarBridge (StarBridge, #1) 3.85 avg rating — 585 ratings
21.
Tau Zero
Tau Zero 3.83 avg rating — 16,140 ratings
21.
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1)
The Collapsing Empire (The Interdependency, #1) 4.13 avg rating — 58,275 ratings
24.
Seveneves
Seveneves really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 122,824 ratings
25.
Silent Dances (StarBridge, #2)
Silent Dances (StarBridge, #2) 4.08 avg rating — 321 ratings
26.
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3)
The Stone Sky (The Broken Earth, #3) 4.34 avg rating — 159,450 ratings
27.
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2)
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth, #2) 4.29 avg rating — 187,581 ratings
28.
Way Station
Way Station 4.03 avg rating — 29,189 ratings
29.
By Bear Bones
By Bear Bones 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
30.
Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)
Space Opera (Space Opera, #1) 3.45 avg rating — 16,840 ratings
31.
Contact
Contact 4.15 avg rating — 150,015 ratings
32.
Space Unicorn Blues (Reason, #1)
Space Unicorn Blues (Reason, #1) 3.76 avg rating — 703 ratings
33.
Stories of Your Life and Others
Stories of Your Life and Others 4.25 avg rating — 120,138 ratings
33.
The Cybernetic Tea Shop
The Cybernetic Tea Shop 4.02 avg rating — 4,270 ratings
35.
Five Unicorn Flush (Reason, #2)
Five Unicorn Flush (Reason, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 236 ratings
36.
Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga #2)
Judas Unchained (Commonwealth Saga #2) 4.30 avg rating — 39,715 ratings
37.
Star Wars: A New Hope (Star Wars Novelizations, #4)
Star Wars: A New Hope (Star Wars Novelizations, #4) 4.07 avg rating — 16,201 ratings
38.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Close Encounters of the Third Kind 4.10 avg rating — 13,221 ratings
39.
Dragon's Kin (Pern, #16)
Dragon's Kin (Pern, #16) 3.98 avg rating — 10,839 ratings
40.
Dreamsnake
Dreamsnake 3.87 avg rating — 11,065 ratings
41.
Quozl
Quozl 3.61 avg rating — 1,674 ratings
41.
Dark Run (Keiko, #1)
Dark Run (Keiko, #1) 3.59 avg rating — 2,580 ratings
41.
Damocles
Damocles 3.86 avg rating — 2,347 ratings
41.
Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek: First Contact 3.98 avg rating — 253 ratings
41.
The Goblin Reservation
The Goblin Reservation 3.98 avg rating — 4,158 ratings
41.
The Jewels of Night: A Deryk Wayd Science Fiction Adventure Novel (The Deryk Wayd Future of the Galaxy Series Book 1)
The Jewels of Night: A Deryk Wayd Science Fiction Adventure Novel (The Deryk Wayd Future of the Galaxy Series Book 1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
41.
The Disasters
The Disasters 3.69 avg rating — 6,917 ratings
41.
Games of Command
Games of Command 4.04 avg rating — 3,456 ratings
41.
The Outlands (The Outlands Saga, #1)
The Outlands (The Outlands Saga, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 310 ratings
41.
Awareness: A Journey of Truth...or Treachery (The Airon Chronicles Book 1)
Awareness: A Journey of Truth...or Treachery (The Airon Chronicles Book 1) 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
41.
Fell Swoop
Fell Swoop 4.14 avg rating — 37 ratings
52.
The Color of Distance
The Color of Distance 4.27 avg rating — 912 ratings
52.
The Green Brain
The Green Brain 3.32 avg rating — 2,057 ratings
52.
An Accidental Goddess
An Accidental Goddess 4.03 avg rating — 3,937 ratings
52.
Doctor Who: The Good Doctor
Doctor Who: The Good Doctor 3.96 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
56.
The First Voyage (Pets and Masters in Space #1)
The First Voyage (Pets and Masters in Space #1) 3.98 avg rating — 365 ratings
56.
Psychoshop
Psychoshop 3.59 avg rating — 910 ratings
56.
Finders Keepers
Finders Keepers 3.93 avg rating — 3,251 ratings
56.
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (Canopus in Argos, #4)
The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (Canopus in Argos, #4) 3.88 avg rating — 797 ratings
56.
Bill & Ted's Excellent Comic Book Archive
Bill & Ted's Excellent Comic Book Archive 3.84 avg rating — 88 ratings
61.
Dining Out Around the Solar System (Dining Out Around The Solar System, #1)
Dining Out Around the Solar System (Dining Out Around The Solar System, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 75 ratings
61.
A Beginner's Guide to Invading Earth
A Beginner's Guide to Invading Earth 3.42 avg rating — 96 ratings
61.
Choke Gasp! the Best of 75 Years of EC Comics
Choke Gasp! the Best of 75 Years of EC Comics 4.41 avg rating — 203 ratings
64.
Dining Out with the Ice Giants (Dining Out Around The Solar System, #2)
Dining Out with the Ice Giants (Dining Out Around The Solar System, #2) 4.45 avg rating — 42 ratings
64.
Alien Nation
Alien Nation 3.54 avg rating — 266 ratings
66.
Star Saga Short Story - Ocherva
Star Saga Short Story - Ocherva it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
66.
Space Operatic
Space Operatic 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
66.
Fledgling (Theo Waitley, #1; Liaden Universe, #12)
Fledgling (Theo Waitley, #1; Liaden Universe, #12) 4.27 avg rating — 3,221 ratings
69.
Star Saga Short Story - Red Allen
Star Saga Short Story - Red Allen really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
70.
Beneath a Trojan Moon (The Phoenix Adventures, #3.5)
Beneath a Trojan Moon (The Phoenix Adventures, #3.5) 4.12 avg rating — 458 ratings
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Axiom's End (Noumena, #1)
Axiom's End (Noumena, #1) 3.71 avg rating — 27,468 ratings
72.
Stinger Stars
Stinger Stars 4.20 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Short Circuit Time
Short Circuit Time 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Taijiku
Taijiku 3.44 avg rating — 25 ratings
75.
The Irish Existentialists: How Conor took the wrong coat and accidentally nearly unravelled the universe.
The Irish Existentialists: How Conor took the wrong coat and accidentally nearly unravelled the universe. 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
76.
The Martian Race (Adventures of Viktor & Julia, #1)
The Martian Race (Adventures of Viktor & Julia, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 973 ratings
77.
Beyond Hercules
Beyond Hercules 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings
78.
Even the Queen, & Other Short Stories
Even the Queen, & Other Short Stories 3.83 avg rating — 524 ratings
79.
Second Ending
Second Ending 3.67 avg rating — 122 ratings
80.
The Star Beast
The Star Beast 3.82 avg rating — 7,932 ratings
81.
Shocking Behavior
Shocking Behavior 3.51 avg rating — 35 ratings
82.
STARMAN
STARMAN 3.57 avg rating — 427 ratings
83.
Cosm
Cosm 3.63 avg rating — 995 ratings
84.
One for Kami
One for Kami 3.87 avg rating — 31 ratings
85.
Exiles at the Well of Souls (Saga of the Well World, #2)
Exiles at the Well of Souls (Saga of the Well World, #2) 3.97 avg rating — 2,427 ratings
86.
Rock Crazy
Rock Crazy 3.38 avg rating — 24 ratings
87.
Down Under
Down Under
by: Tam Ames
3.57 avg rating — 81 ratings
88.
Me Squared
Me Squared 3.29 avg rating — 21 ratings
89.
Have Wormhole, Will Travel
Have Wormhole, Will Travel 3.28 avg rating — 68 ratings
90.
Saline
Saline really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
91.
Monsters and Medics
Monsters and Medics 3.82 avg rating — 82 ratings
92.
Hospital Station (Sector General, #1)
Hospital Station (Sector General, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,284 ratings
93.
Uncharted Territory
Uncharted Territory 3.49 avg rating — 1,755 ratings
94.
Don't Feed the Fairies (The Cytolene Chronicles, #1)
Don't Feed the Fairies (The Cytolene Chronicles, #1) 3.58 avg rating — 55 ratings
95.
Windhaven
Windhaven 3.68 avg rating — 7,147 ratings
96.
A Fall of Moondust
A Fall of Moondust 3.89 avg rating — 11,379 ratings
97.
Cities at Sea
Cities at Sea 2.44 avg rating — 27 ratings