Books like 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.
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2001: A Space Odyssey
A mysterious black monolith guides human evolution from ape to astronaut, culminating in a voyage to Jupiter that transforms a man into something beyond human.
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.
Rendezvous with Rama
A massive, empty alien spacecraft enters the solar system, and a crew of explorers boards it to discover its purpose.
The Mote in God's Eye
In 3017, a thousand years after humanity spread to the stars, a probe arrives from the Mote, a star nobody has ever visited, and the Second Empire of Man sends the battlecruiser MacArthur to meet whoever sent it.
The Long Earth
When plans for a simple device powered by a potato appear online, people discover that they can step sideways into an endless chain of parallel Earths untouched by humans, and Joshua Valienté, who can step without one, sets out with an artificial intelligence to see how far the chain goes.
Aurora
Nearly two centuries into its voyage, a generation ship carrying two thousand people approaches Tau Ceti, where they mean to settle, and the ship's computer, asked by the chief engineer to tell their story, starts learning how to narrate.
Excession
An artefact older than the universe appears at the edge of the galaxy, and the Culture's ship Minds, a rival empire and a pair of estranged lovers are caught up in what to do about it.
Ringworld
Explorers discover a massive ring-shaped artificial world orbiting a distant star and must survive its ancient, dangerous wonders.
Murderbot Diaries: All Systems Red
A socially anxious security robot hacks its own governor module and must decide whether to protect its human clients or binge-watch TV shows.
Columbus Day
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.
Pandora's Star
In 2380 humanity has spread across hundreds of worlds linked by wormholes, and when an astronomer sees two distant stars vanish inside a barrier, a starship is sent to find out why, with consequences no one foresaw.
Shards of Earth
Fifty years after the alien Architects stopped reshaping inhabited worlds and vanished, Idris Telemmier, an Intermediary engineered to fight them and now crewing a salvage ship, finds signs that they are back.