Books like Dark Orbit by Carolyn Gilman

Andy Weir’s debut science‑fiction bestseller follows astronaut Mark Watney, stranded on Mars in 2035, as he uses ingenuity to survive.

Set on a colonized Moon turned penal colony, the story follows a self-aware supercomputer, a jack‑of‑all‑trades technician, an anarchist professor, and a young revolutionary as they spark a rebellion against the Lunar Authority.

Rosemary Harper finds refuge and adventure aboard the aging ship Wayfarer, where a diverse crew of aliens and humans navigate friendship, mystery, and a pivotal interplanetary mission.

William Gibson’s debut Sprawl novel, *Neuromancer*, blends cyberpunk with a visionary digital future, following a hacker’s final job against a powerful AI. It earned Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick awards.

Four‑year‑old physics professor Jason Dessen is abducted and drugged, waking in a dystopian world where his family and reality are altered, forcing him to confront a formidable foe and the darkest parts of himself.

Inspector Tyador Borlú journeys from Besźel to Ul Qoma to investigate the murder of a woman, navigating two distinct cities that both share one physical space yet have separate identities.

A science fiction sequel to Blue Remembered Earth, On The Steel Breeze follows humanity’s expansion into new worlds, tackling interstellar voyages, alien encounters, and the quest for a utopian future.

Sequel to On the Steel Breeze.

When telepathic aliens invade Earth, humanity creates the Defenders—17‑foot‑tall, genetically engineered warriors. The story follows their rise, the war they wage, and the moral questions left when the battle ends.

A 12‑year‑old narrator recounts the life of 14‑year‑old Joseph, a foster child from prison, who struggles to reunite with his unborn daughter, Jupiter, while facing the ghosts of his past.

A wanderer named Pardero, missing his memories, seeks his identity and vengeance on the planet Marune, a world illuminated by four suns, while navigating a complex realm of kings, thieves, and magic.

Winner of the Locus Award: Space-station workers discover a shocking global surveillance plot in this novel from “the master of science-fiction intrigue” (The Washington Post). Popeye Hooker knows that space isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. A former fisherman who takes a job building low orbital stations to escape a failed relationship, he finds that in space, construction work is still a grind. And when they aren’t building the space stations that will usher humanity into the stars, Sam Sloane and the rest of the beamjacks get high, blast the Grateful Dead, and stare through telescopes at the world they left behind. But life in orbit is about to get much more interesting. Nestled among the life support equipment that keeps them alive and the entertainment systems that keep them happy, the beamjacks find something astonishing. Turns out, their home isn’t just a space station—it’s a giant antenna designed to spy on every inhabitant of Earth. It’s the greatest privacy invasion ever perpetrated, and the beamjacks won’t stand for it. They may not be pioneers, but these roughnecks are about to become revolutionaries. Timely—and with Orwellian undertones, Allen Steele’s debut won the Locus Award for Best First Novel

When an eccentric friend shows up with a gun, claiming alien quantum intelligence, Jacob Kelley’s family is plunged into a murder investigation that blurs the line between reality and quantum physics.

In Arbroath, the Doctor confronts a bizarre mystery at the Fetch Brothers' Golf Spa Hotel, where golfers vanish, a strange octopus‑obsessed family lurks, and an ancient alien threat awakens beneath the ground.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

On a thousand‑year voyage to a new world aboard the ship Noah, Hana Dempsey—a psychic, hacker, and city planner—befriends policeman Leonard Barrens as they investigate a murder that could threaten all humanity.

A geological survey of a Martian cave turns into a planetary mystery when seismic disturbances reveal a self‑organizing, towering structure, mysterious blue radiation, and a journal that rewrites itself.