Books like An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
April May, a twenty-three-year-old designer walking home through Manhattan at three in the morning, finds a giant robot-like sculpture on the pavement, makes a video with it and wakes up famous as identical figures turn up in cities around the world.
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Sleeping Giants
A girl riding her bike in South Dakota falls through the ground into a giant metal hand, and years later, as a physicist, Rose Franklin leads a secret project to find the rest of the body, told through interviews by an unnamed man.
Project Hail Mary
An astronaut wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory of his mission, and must solve an interstellar puzzle with the help of an unlikely alien friend.
Rosewater
In 2066 Rosewater is a town in Nigeria built around an alien dome that opens once a year and heals whoever is nearby, and Kaaro, a government agent who can read minds, starts to notice that people like him are dying.
Kitty and the Midnight Hour
Kitty Norville, a werewolf at the bottom of her Denver pack, hosts a late-night radio show and starts taking calls from vampires, werewolves and witches on air.
Roadside Picnic
Years after unseen visitors stopped briefly on Earth and left behind six Zones full of lethal anomalies and priceless artefacts, Red Schuhart makes his living as a stalker, slipping into the Zone outside his town to bring out what he can sell.
Feed
In 2039, twenty years after cures for cancer and the common cold combined into a virus that raises the dead, the blogging siblings Georgia and Shaun Mason are picked to follow a presidential campaign.
Lock In
Twenty-five years after a virus left millions locked inside their bodies and walking the world in robot bodies, Chris Shane, a locked-in FBI rookie, and his partner investigate a murder whose suspect may have been carrying someone else's mind.
The Circle
Mae Holland lands a job at the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, on a dazzling California campus, and is swept up in its drive to make everything, her own life included, transparent.
Contact
Ellie Arroway, a radio astronomer, picks up a signal from the star Vega that turns out to carry the plans for a machine, and the world has to decide whether to build it and who should go.
We Are Legion (We Are Bob)
Software developer Bob Johansson signs up to have his head frozen, dies, and wakes a century later as the computer intelligence of a self-replicating space probe, sent by a theocratic government to find new worlds while rival nations try to destroy him.
The Devil in Silver
Pepper, a big, hot-tempered moving man, is committed to New Hyde, a psychiatric hospital in Queens, for a seventy-two hour hold after a scuffle with police, and learns that something with a bull's head walks the ward at night.
Hominids
Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist from a parallel Earth where his species survived, is accidentally transported into a neutrino detector deep under Ontario.