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Roger Zelazny · 1966 · US · science fiction
★ 3.89 Goodreads · 12,929 ratings

Conrad Nomikos, an ageless Greek with a mysterious past, is assigned to guide a blue-skinned alien on a tour of an Earth left in ruins by nuclear war and largely bought up by aliens.

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Lord of Light

Roger Zelazny · 1967 · US 97% match ★ 4.05 Goodreads · 36,963 ratings
shares: immortal, mythological, hugo award · speculative, rich prose

A man who is also a god wages war on heaven using the stolen technology of the gods against them, in a far-future Hindu-Buddhist mythology.

To Your Scattered Bodies Go

Philip José Farmer · 1971 · US 94% match ★ 3.93 Goodreads · 34,307 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Riverworld
shares: scifi, adventure, classic · speculative, deep world-building

Everyone who ever lived wakes up naked and young again on the banks of an endless river on an unknown world, and the explorer Richard Francis Burton sets out to find out who put them there.

Circe

Madeline Miller · 2018 · US 92% match ★ 4.22 Goodreads · 1,493,450 ratings
shares: immortal, Greek, mythological · speculative, rich prose

Exiled to the island of Aiaia for witchcraft, the scorned daughter of the sun god Helios spends centuries honing her power, entangled with gods and with mortal visitors such as Odysseus.

Columbus Day

Craig Alanson · 2016 · US 92% match ★ 4.25 Goodreads · 36,442 ratings
shares: scifi, adventure, witty · speculative, exterior

When aliens invade Earth on Columbus Day, Joe Bishop, a young army specialist, is sent to fight on alien worlds and ends up teamed with Skippy, an ancient, arrogant AI in something like a beer can.

Journey to the West

Wu Cheng'en · 1592 · China 91% match ★ 4.33 Goodreads · 1,075 ratings
shares: mythological, adventure, classic, myth · speculative, exterior

The monk Tripitaka travels from Tang China to India to fetch the Buddhist scriptures, guarded by Monkey, a rebellious immortal who once made war on heaven, along with Pigsy and Sandy.

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang

Kate Wilhelm · 1976 · US 90% match ★ 3.85 Goodreads · 11,502 ratings
shares: scifi, post apocalyptic, classic · speculative, cold

As pollution and plague leave humanity sterile, the wealthy Sumner family, in their isolated Appalachian valley, prepare by building a hospital and a cloning laboratory.

Old Man's War

John Scalzi · 2005 · US 90% match ★ 4.23 Goodreads · 235,399 ratings
Book 1 of 7 in Old Man's War
shares: adventure, witty · speculative, exterior

On his seventy-fifth birthday, John Perry joins the Colonial Defense Forces, which give him a young, enhanced body in exchange for leaving Earth for ever and fighting humanity's wars across the stars.

The Big Time

Fritz Leiber · 1958 · US 89% match ★ 3.25 Goodreads · 4,826 ratings
shares: classic, hugo award · speculative, exterior

In the Place, a rest station outside time for soldiers of the Change War, the hostess Greta Forzane tells of the night the station was cut off and someone brought in an atomic bomb.

A Time of Changes

Robert Silverberg · 1971 · US 89% match ★ 3.68 Goodreads · 3,836 ratings
shares: scifi, classic · speculative, hopeful

On the planet Borthan, where custom forbids anyone to say I or reveal the self, Kinnall Darival, an exiled prince, takes an Earth drug that lets minds merge, and sits down to write his autobiography.

Moving Mars

Greg Bear · 1993 · US 89% match ★ 3.85 Goodreads · 8,007 ratings
shares: scifi · speculative, hopeful

Casseia Majumdar, a young student from one of the family clans that run Mars, is drawn into the politics of the colonies as Earth tightens its grip.

The Lightning Thief

Rick Riordan · 2005 · US 88% match ★ 4.31 Goodreads · 3,578,744 ratings
Book 1 of 8 in Percy Jackson and the Olympians
shares: Greek, mythological, adventure · speculative, exterior

Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson, a troubled kid with dyslexia and ADHD, learns that the Greek gods are real and that he is the son of one of them, and he has ten days to find Zeus's stolen lightning bolt and stop a war among the gods.

The Gone-Away World

Nick Harkaway · 2008 · UK 88% match ★ 4.09 Goodreads · 14,759 ratings
shares: post apocalyptic, witty · speculative, rich prose

After the Go Away War, fought with bombs that made matter itself vanish, the world is held together by the Jorgmund Pipe, and when the Pipe catches fire, the narrator and his best friend, Gonzo Lubitsch, are hired to put it out.