Recs if you like Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)...
The Anthropocene, As Seen Through SFF
SFF featuring second worlds and storytelling that reflect and engage with hopes, anxieties, and imaginations about human activity and its influence on the environment + environmental justice. Always open to suggestions! (Note that I am using “second world” very loosely here, to mean both traditional second worlds and/or versions of Earth or parts of Earth that are so distant/strange as to be unrecognizable)
Un-be-leaf-able - planty fiction
Fiction books featuring plants as a major theme. For the purpose of this list, fungi are honorary plants! All fiction genres here (though I am primarily a fantasy reader, so suggestions most welcome!)
we're not alone 👽
a list of sci-fi books containing aliens
SFF books in series that pretend to be standalone
Self-contained SFF books that belong to a series, offering a complete story without a multi-book commitment. A perfect way to sample immersive worlds while limiting potential disappointment – yet still leaving more to explore if you liked it.
Fungi, Mushrooms, Plants, and Scary Biology
In Space No One Can Hear You Scream
Sci-Fi horror novels set off-world (written by fem and non-binary authors)
First Contact Sci-Fi
First Contact with Aliens Sci-Fi Books
symbiosis in fiction
fiction novels that contain two different species melding together and forging a relationship for the good of at least one of them! because remember, parasitism is a symbiotic relationship as well. mainly science fiction but spans all fiction!
Sea Creature Summer
“Summer” reading list with novels in a variety of genres about a variety of sea creatures.
Lost & Found
books you thought were lost to time, never to be seen again 😞 BUT WE GOT EM 🥹
no inclusion of mainstream/popular books (BookTok, movie or tv adaptations, series or authors oversaturated within reading apps already), at least until they're forgotten, favour given to books with next to no active fandom
