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  • Trevor Williams First contact sci-fi but with a twist Book cover of The Last Astronaut Book cover of Saturn Run Book cover of Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre Book cover of Spin Book cover of Childhood's End
  • Craig A. Falconer How things will change when the aliens show up Book cover of Contact Book cover of Childhood's End Book cover of Sphere Book cover of The War of the Worlds Book cover of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  • Paul L. Arvidson Character driven science fiction you can't put down Book cover of The Fairy's Tale Book cover of Warpworld Book cover of Struggling With the Current Book cover of Rosewater Book cover of Lagoon
  • Arnie Benn Sci-fi classics that offer insight into human nature Book cover of Contact Book cover of Dune Book cover of Stranger in a Strange Land Book cover of Non-Stop Book cover of The Moon is Hell
  • Matthew Bowman Understanding the UFO phenomenon Book cover of Communion Book cover of Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers Book cover of The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny Book cover of American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology Book cover of The Myth and Mystery of UFOs
  • Catherine Egan Middle-grade sci fi – with bonus aliens Book cover of Bloom Book cover of Dragon Pearl Book cover of Jillian VS Parasite Planet Book cover of The True Meaning of Smekday Book cover of Last Gate of the Emperor
  • Felice Picano Sci-fi you missed because they were novellas Book cover of Tales of Pirx the Pilot Book cover of Binti Book cover of Roadside Picnic: Volume 16 Book cover of All Systems Red Book cover of Consider Phlebas
  • Mark Landau Fantasy/sci-fi saving, ending, and starting worlds Book cover of Stranger in a Strange Land Book cover of Childhood's End Book cover of More Than Human Book cover of Ender's Game Book cover of Speaker for the Dead
  • Ken Goudsward Rational UFO stories Book cover of The Ancient Alien Question Book cover of The Day After Roswell Book cover of Ancient Aliens and Secret Societies Book cover of Forbidden Archeology Book cover of UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record
  • Nick DiChario First-contact for sci-fi fans and the uninitiated Book cover of Contact Book cover of Gateway Book cover of Roadside Picnic: Volume 16 Book cover of The Martian Chronicles Book cover of Star Maker
  • Dawn Keetley The terrifying world of plants Book cover of The Day of the Triffids Book cover of The Ruins Book cover of The Red Tree Book cover of Invasion of the Body Snatchers Book cover of Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life
  • Sarah Scoles Making night sky your new BFF Book cover of The Last Stargazers: The Enduring Story of Astronomy's Vanishing Explorers Book cover of The Human Cosmos: Civilization and the Stars Book cover of The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World Book cover of Contact Book cover of The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking)
  • Cassandra Lynn King Helping you escape reality Book cover of To Sleep in a Sea of Stars Book cover of Delirium Book cover of The Stand Book cover of The Passage Book cover of Who Fears Death
  • Jason Jowett Inspiring sci-fi that reforges your worldview Book cover of The Reality Dysfunction Book cover of Childhood's End Book cover of The Algebraist Book cover of Freeway Fighter Book cover of Ready Player Two
  • Michael Loring Books inspired by video games Book cover of Armada Book cover of Rule of Cool: A LitRPG Novel Book cover of The Eye of Minds Book cover of All You Need Is Kill Book cover of Solo Leveling, Vol. 1
  • Nick Wood African climate speculative fiction Book cover of Lagoon Book cover of Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa Book cover of It Doesn't Have to Be This Way Book cover of Naturalizing Africa: Ecological Violence, Agency, and Postcolonial Resistance in African Literature Book cover of A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis
  • Darrell Keifer Science fiction books for grown-ups Book cover of The Mote in God's Eye Book cover of Godspeed Book cover of Project Hail Mary Book cover of Quietus Book cover of Six Wakes
  • Lars Chittka Animal intelligence – from aliens to octopuses Book cover of Solaris Book cover of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? Book cover of Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness Book cover of If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals about Human Stupidity Book cover of Can Fish Count? What Animals Reveal about Our Uniquely Mathematical Minds
  • John Walters Celebrating the psychedelic sixties Book cover of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Book cover of Outside Looking In Book cover of A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead Book cover of Stranger in a Strange Land Book cover of Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties
  • Casey Wolfe LGBTQ fantasy and science fiction Book cover of Trick of the Light Book cover of A Pirate's Primer Book cover of Dust Book cover of Incursion Book cover of Bone Rider
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