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qntm · 2020 · UK · science fiction · horror
★ 3.98 Goodreads · 68,149 ratings

Marion Wheeler runs a secret department that contains ideas which erase themselves from memory, and fights an enemy no one can remember with notes to herself and drugs that let her see what she has forgotten.

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Blake Crouch · 2022 · US 94% match ★ 3.70 Hardcover · 843 ratings
shares: mindbender, scientific, cerebral · fast-paced, plain prose

Logan Ramsay, an agent of the Gene Protection Agency in a near future scarred by a genetic-engineering disaster, is exposed during a raid to a virus that starts rewriting his genome and making him smarter than anyone has been.

The Library at Mount Char

Scott Hawkins · 2015 · US 93% match ★ 4.05 Goodreads · 90,676 ratings
shares: cosmic, conspiracy · cold, uncanny

Carolyn and the other adopted children of a godlike figure called Father have each spent years mastering one catalogue of his library, and when he goes missing, the contest to replace him turns lethal.

Inverted World

Christopher Priest · 1974 · UK 93% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 11,667 ratings
shares: mindbender, scientific, cerebral · uncanny, speculative

On reaching the age of six hundred and fifty miles, Helward Mann leaves the crèche of the city called Earth, which is winched along rails across a hostile land to stay near a moving point its people call the optimum, and joins the guild that lays the track.

The Three-Body Problem

Cixin Liu · 2008 · China 92% match ★ 4.08 Goodreads · 542,191 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Remembrance of Earth's Past
shares: cosmic, conspiracy, scientific · cold, idea-driven

During the Cultural Revolution, astrophysicist Ye Wenjie answers a signal from space, and decades later nanomaterials researcher Wang Miao, investigating a wave of scientists' suicides, is drawn into a strange virtual-reality game and the secret behind it.

Spin

Robert Charles Wilson · 2005 · US 91% match ★ 4.04 Goodreads · 45,898 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Spin
shares: cosmic, scientific · speculative, earnest

One night the stars go out all at once, and Tyler Dupree and his friends Jason and Diane grow up beneath a mysterious barrier that has sealed the Earth off from the universe, while time outside races by.

Ubik

Philip K. Dick · 1969 · US 89% match ★ 4.11 Goodreads · 130,005 ratings
shares: mindbender · uncanny, cold

In 1992 Joe Chip works for a firm that hires out people who can block telepaths and precogs from spying on its clients. When a job on the Moon goes wrong, the world around him starts to slip backwards in time.

Diaspora

Greg Egan · 1997 · Australia 89% match ★ 4.10 Goodreads · 12,130 ratings
shares: mindbender, cosmic, scientific · uncanny, speculative

In 2975 most of humanity lives as software in polises, and Yatima, a mind born of no parents, comes into being in one of them, not long before a disaster in space threatens the flesh-and-blood humans left on Earth.

Blood Music

Greg Bear · 1985 · US 89% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 17,882 ratings
shares: cosmic, scientific · uncanny, idea-driven

Vergil Ulam, a brilliant and reckless researcher at a California biotech firm, is ordered to destroy his secret experiment, cells that can think, and smuggles them out of the lab the only way he can, inside his own body.

Sleeping Giants

Sylvain Neuvel · 2016 · Canada 89% match ★ 3.82 Goodreads · 100,154 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Themis Files
shares: conspiracy, scientific · fast-paced, plain prose

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.

The Peripheral

William Gibson · 2014 · US 88% match ★ 3.89 Goodreads · 34,424 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Jackpot
shares: conspiracy, cerebral · speculative, uncanny

A young woman in near-future rural America takes a gig testing what she thinks is a video game and witnesses a murder in a London seventy years ahead.

Permutation City

Greg Egan · 1994 · Australia 88% match ★ 4.04 Goodreads · 14,118 ratings
shares: mindbender, scientific, cerebral · speculative, idea-driven

In 2050, when the rich can have themselves scanned and live on as Copies in virtual worlds, Paul Durham runs experiments on his own Copy and then offers a few wealthy Copies a way to live for ever beyond the reach of the real world's computers.

The Calcutta Chromosome

Amitav Ghosh · 1995 · India 86% match ★ 3.49 Goodreads · 7,290 ratings
shares: conspiracy, scientific · idea-driven, cold

Antar, an Egyptian clerk at a global health agency in near-future New York, finds a damaged ID card on his computer that sets him tracing a former colleague who vanished in Calcutta while investigating Ronald Ross, the man who found how malaria spreads.