Unearthed Shelf
Classic Sci-Fi Books
Finding classic science-fiction novels, popular series, hidden gems, and underrated masterpieces has never been easier!
- All
- Aliens
- Alternate History
- Apocalyptic
- Cyberpunk
- Dystopia
- Hard Sci-fi
- Military
- Robots
- Space Opera
- Steampunk
- Time Travel
All Books
Revelation Space
Author: Alastair Reynolds
Year: 2000
Rating:
Nine hundred thousand years ago, something annihilated the Amarantin civilization just as it was on the verge of discovering space flight. Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repe…
Goodreads
2001: A Space Odyssey
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Year: 1968
Rating:
On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered.So great are the implications of this discovery that for the first time men are sent out deep into our solar system.But long before their destination is reached, things begin to go horribly, inexplicably wrong...On…
Goodreads
Ringworld
Author: Larry Niven
Year: 1970
Rating:
The artefact is a circular ribbon of matter six hundred million miles long and ninety million miles in radius. Pierson's puppeteers, the aliens who discovered it, are understandably wary of encountering the builders of such an immense structure and h…
Goodreads
Foundation
Author: Isaac Asimov
Year: 1951
Rating:
For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. But only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future -- to a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will las…
Goodreads
Dauntless
Author: Jack Campbell
Year: 2006
Rating:
The Alliance has been fighting the Syndics for a century--and losing badly. Now its fleet is crippled and stranded in enemy territory. Their only hope is a man who's emerged from a century-long hibernation to find he has been heroically idealized, be…
Goodreads
The Forever War
Author: Joe Haldeman
Year: 1974
Rating:
The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy that they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away. A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite Military unit, Private Wi…
Goodreads
The Stars, Like Dust
Author: Isaac Asimov
Year: 1951
Rating:
Biron Farrell was young and naïve, but he was growing up fast. A radiation bomb planted in his dorm room changed him from an innocent student at the University of Earth to a marked man, fleeing desperately from an unknown assassin. He soon discove…
Goodreads
Pandora's Star
Author: Peter F. Hamilton
Year: 2004
Rating:
Critics have compared the engrossing space operas of Peter F. Hamilton to the classic sagas of such sf giants as Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert. But Hamilton's bestselling fiction--powered by a fearless imagination and world-class storytelling skills…
Goodreads
2010, odyssey two
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Year: 1982
Rating:
When 2001: A Space Odyssey first shocked, amazed, and delighted millions in the late 1960s, the novel was quickly recognized as a classic. Since then, its fame has grown steadily among the multitudes who have read the novel or seen the film based on…
Goodreads
The Martian Chronicles
Author: Ray Bradbury
Year: 1950
Rating:
This is a collection of science fiction short stories, cleverly cobbled together to form a coherent and very readable novel about a future colonization of Mars. As the stories progress chronologically the author tells how the first humans colonized M…
Goodreads