Books like Mind over ship by David Marusek

In the 29th century, humanity’s vast Hegemony spans dozens of worlds connected by farcaster portals, while the enigmatic Shrike guards the Time Tombs on the lone planet Hyperion. A diverse pilgrimage of chosen individuals must each recount why they were summoned to witness the tombs’ reverse time cycle.

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.

In a post‑alien‑invasion future, a diverse crew of highly modified humans and a resurrected ancient predator are sent to the edge of the solar system to make contact with unknown extraterrestrial intelligence.

In a future where corporations weaponize genetic engineering, Paolo Bacigalupi’s *The Windup Girl* explores the ethical and societal consequences of bioterrorism and gene hacking.

A tale of the future, where artificial intelligence and molecular nanotechnology are rewriting the human condition.

Flynne, a young woman living in a drug‑reliant city, helps her veteran brother Burton test a new virtual reality game. When the beta test turns into a murder investigation, she discovers a deadly conspiracy that threatens her life.

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.

Explore a future where a billionaire’s quest for immortality unleashes a reality‑bending, virtual world, challenging what it means to be human.

Set in the year 2140, New York City has been transformed into a city of canals and islands as rising sea levels inundate the skyline, yet life continues in a familiar, yet altered, bustling metropolis.

In a far‑future solar system where most humans live as conscious software or in robotic bodies, a genderless digital orphan discovers a cosmic threat that could erase the conscious minds and must gather knowledge to save all of humanity.

Explore how human activity reshapes Earth’s ecosystems, leaving a legacy of environmental change and potential decline.

In 1890s England, an insomniac falls into a two‑hundred‑year sleep, only to awaken as the wealthiest and most powerful man on Earth, confronting a dystopian society built on his forgotten investments.

A collection of speculative military science‑fiction short stories by David Drake, featuring Colonel Hammer Alois in the Hammer's Slammer universe.

In the 24th century, two comedians find themselves embroiled in a terrorist plot aboard a spaceship and are rescued by their robotic sidekick during an interplanetary tour.

In a science‑fiction future, a present‑day man discovers that souls pair across time, recalling past lives and developing extraordinary mental powers as they seek their destined mates.

A 16‑year‑old girl must decide whether to risk her best friend—and possibly a loved one—to change destiny, in a tale mixing adventure, time travel, and pirate lore.

A tense interplanetary expedition turns into a race against a cunning killer as scientists hunt an alien species, but the murderer could be a hostile alien—or a colleague.

The Way to Glory is a science‑fiction space warfare tale by David Drake that explores interstellar conflict, high‑tech strategy, and the harsh realities of combat in a futuristic universe.

"We don't understand the reactionary mind. As a result, argues Mark Lilla in this timely book, the ideas and passions that shape today's political dramas are unintelligible to us. The reactionary is anything but a conservative. He is as radical and modern a figure as the revolutionary, someone shipwrecked in the rapidly changing present, and suffering from nostalgia for an idealized past and an apocalyptic fear that history is rushing toward catastrophe. And like the revolutionary his political engagements are motived by highly developed ideas. Lilla unveils the structure of reactionary thinking, beginning with three twentieth-century philosophers--Franz Rosenzweig, Eric Voegelin, and Leo Strauss --who attributed the problems of modern society to a break in the history of ideas and promoted a return to earlier modes of thought. He then examines the enduring power of grand historical narratives of betrayal to shape political outlooks ever since the French Revolution. These narratives are employed to serve different, and sometimes expressly opposed, ends. They appear in the writings of Europe's right-wing cultural pessimists and Maoist neocommunists, American theoconservatives fantasizing about the harmony of medieval Catholic society and radical Islamists seeking to restore a vanished Muslim caliphate. The revolutionary spirit that inspired political movements across the world for two centuries may have died out. But the spirit of reaction that rose to meet it has survived and is proving just as formidable a historical force. We live in an age when the tragicomic nostalgia of Don Quixote for a lost golden age has been transformed into a potent and sometimes deadly weapon. Mark Lilla helps us to understand why"--