Books like Count to a Trillion by John C. Wright

Afro-futurist science fiction.

A lyrical saga that follows fifteen‑year‑old Holly Sykes, a psychic teenager who awakens a network of mystical forces and secret societies, while her family's lives intertwine across continents and centuries amid a hidden war between mystics and their enemies.

When the massive Fithp spacecraft from Alpha Centauri arrives in the Solar System, humanity faces a bold and terrifying challenge: an extraterrestrial species intent on conquering Earth.

Carl Sagan’s final work, Billions and Billions, blends science, math, and astronomy with everyday life, exploring topics from chess to Mars, climate change to politics, and offering personal reflections on family, health, faith and mortality.

Captain Vorpatril's Alliance in the Vorkosigan Saga series by Lois McMaster Bujold.

Binti: The Complete Trilogy follows Binti, a young Himba woman who becomes the first of her people to attend Oomza University in deep space, forging unlikely friendships and confronting centuries of conflict as humanity and the Meduse seek coexistence.

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.

The Dark Between the Stars is a grand-scale space opera where humanity must overcome internal divides and reignite an alliance with the Ildiran Empire to confront a new, ominous threat that endangers the galaxy.

After a post‑World II alien virus granted a handful of survivors superhuman abilities, Wild Cards #2 follows these heroes and villains through the turbulent 1980s.

Set in 10,515 AD, "The Judge of Ages" follows the looming arrival of the Hyades Armada, dead‑set on enslaving Earth. Two long‑running factions, Ximen del Azarchel’s experimenter mutineers and Menelaus Montrose’s cryonic posthumans, clash in a final showdown over humanity’s fate.

In a gritty, dystopian future, a hard‑boiled detective navigates murder, conspiracy, and terror within a virtual world that fractures the line between reality and crime.

When the long‑hidden alien monsters of Ain are finally revealed, their shocking past and the reasoning behind their brutal treatment of humanity—and all seeded species—emerge, leaving a single, terrifying secret that could unravel everything Montrose has fought for.

A Texas gunslinger from cryo-suspension is revived to save a threatened historical period.

I am part of nature, and nature is part of me. I am what I am in my communication and communion with all living things. I am an irreducible and coherent whole with the web of life on the planet. Nature, the human community and the universe is connected with the Cosmos. We recognize the deep truth that I am the other. This expresses the concept from contemporary physics of “entanglement”, which is a quantum phenomenon. All atoms, all cells are connected, deeply.” The friendship is the connection we feel for each other, wherever he is, other people, animals, plants, stars. I am part of society, and society is part of me. I am what I am in my communication and communion with my fellow humans.I am an irreducible and coherent whole with the community of humans on the planet. The separate identity I attach to other humans and other things is but a convenient convention that facilitates my interaction with them. My family and my community are just as much “me” as the organs of my body. My body and mind, my family and my community, are interacting and interpenetrating, variously prevalent elements in the network of relations that encompasses all things in nature and the human world. The whole gamut of concepts and ideas that separates my identity, or the identity of any person or community, from the identity of other persons and communities are manifestations of this convenient but arbitrary convention. There are only gradients distinguishing individuals from each other and from their environment and no real divisions and boundaries. There are no “others” in the world: We are all living systems and we are all part of each other. Attempting to maintain the system I know as “me” through ruthless competition with the system I know as “you” is a grave mistake: It could damage the integrity of the embracing whole that frames both your life and mine. I cannot preserve my own life and wholeness by damaging that whole, even if damaging a part of it seems to bring me short-term advantage. When I harm you, or anyone else around me, I harm myself. Collaboration, not competition, is the royal road to the wholeness that hallmarks healthy systems in the world. Collaboration calls for empathy and solidarity, and ultimately for love. I do not and cannot love myself if I do not love you and others around me: We are part of the same whole and so are part of each other.

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.

Isaac Asimov's first science essay collection, "Only a Trillion," compiles 14 insightful essays originally appeared in prominent science and science‑fiction magazines, exploring topics from atomic physics to the peculiar world of thiotimoline.