Recs if you like The Andromeda Strain...

forced into unending sleep or perilous insomnia, repeating tedious daily routines until your body rots, watching as your skin starts to glow or your hands sprout scales - these novels feature illnesses that are far from typical

if you enjoyed / find yourself enjoying my strange plagues quest, you’ll find even more suggestions for further reading within the niche here!!!

Conspiracy theories, bat-shit level shenanigans, and bizarre situations abound. Definitely give me your unhinged recs.

Books that ignore the traditional way of telling a story. These books tell their stories in unexpected ways, through letters, transcripts, diaries, documents, text messages, or unconventional layouts.

This is for the classics, the old and new, the lesser known books, the short stories and the translated speculative fiction. Sci-fi could be argued to be one of the best and most expansive genres out there - it’s just a matter of finding the right book for you.

If there is a series, I will only be putting the first book unless they are unrelated.

Is this mostly poached from GoodReads and reddit? Yes 😊 Do I care? 😏

Bio-horror, zombies, medical experiments, folk horror & viral infections - if you have any recommendations, please lmk!!

For readers who like their science gory and their space unsafe.

A lot of sci-fi books are heavy on the fiction and light on the science but these are books that passed my vibe check as a scientist. If you have any more to add I'm always looking for suggestions!

Wait! What? If it’s not about spaceships and aliens and strange new worlds, what is sci-fi about?

It’s about what’s going on here, now, to us— just like other genres. Setting the story centuries in the future is a way for the author to view our world from a different perspective. Which is cool. But not necessary.

Here are some sci-fi and speculative fiction works set in the author’s own time. Some old, some new. Some not even sci-fi. But all will give you a new perspective on the world.

into your house into your bed into your streams into your streets into your drink into your bread upon your cattle on your sheep upon your oxen in your field into your dreams into your sleep until you break until you yield

A collection of alien invasion sci-fi.

Books from Chapter 3: When Animals Attack from Grady Hendrix’s Paperbacks from Hell. Animals meet the horror genre of 70s and 80s paperbacks…

These books will involve some sort of viral outbreak. Suggestions welcome!

science fiction that takes place Right Now ⬇️

I read ‘Jurassic Park’ and honestly got hooked on his style of writing. not my usual thing, but now I’m on a mission to read all of his books! fair warning: they are of varying quality!

a collection of stories focusing on alien invasions (the list is also a work in progress!)

The full title is the List of Indispensable Science Fiction for the Compleat Gentleman.... this is a list I found online in 2020 which I did not finish after having a bad time with H.G. Wells, but I'm ready to dip my toe back in. If anyome else wouod like to be a compleat gentleman (gender neutral) with me, come along :)