Books like Humans by Robert J. Sawyer

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

Isaac Asimov’s classic science‑fiction saga follows psychohistorian Hari Seldon as he establishes a Foundation to preserve knowledge and prevent thirty‑thousand years of darkness after the fall of the Galactic Empire.

In a global international mission, scientists use radio astronomy to intercept a mysterious extraterrestrial signal, setting off a race to decode the message that will change humanity’s view of its place in the universe.

When a colossal alien cylinder enters the solar system, a hastily assembled crew docks aboard to explore its mysterious interior, uncovering scientific puzzles that reshape humanity’s view of the cosmos.

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.

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

In *Hominids*, a Neanderthal physicist named Ponter Boddit accidentally crosses into our world, where he is studied, befriended, and becomes entangled in a murder investigation that threatens his survival.

331 pages ; 24 cm

A techno‑thriller in report form, The Andromeda Strain follows an expert team in New Mexico as they confront a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism that threatens humanity.

Invasion, Survival, and the Fight for Survival

In "Hybrids" Robert J. Sawyer brings together a Neanderthal physicist and a human geneticist as they navigate two worlds, use banned Neanderthal tech and face planetary magnetic collapse in a story of love and scientific hope.

A history student attempts to rewrite history by preventing Adolf Hitler's birth, only to find his meddling leads to a more powerful dictator and an accelerated atomic age—until he reverts the change to restore the original timeline.

A story of historical fiction blending with alternative history, focusing on the American Civil War era and its aftermath, with a twist of the 1930s and 1940s war scenarios that are set in the North.

The Great War - Breakthroughs: A Science Fiction Novel Set in the Interwar Period Featuring Alternate History and Innovations from World War I.

A small town in the past finds itself caught in the middle of a time-travel adventure gone wrong.

After a cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption, life on Earth is devastated—climate shifts, soil turns barren, and technology collapses. In the harsh new world, former officer Colin Ferguson must race against time to save his family and humanity.

A saga of life thirty thousand years ago, depicting the lives of a shaman, an outsider, and the next shaman in a treacherous world.

In War Times follows Sam Dance, a 1941 enlisted soldier who learns advanced physics and code‑breaking while training. After Pearl Harbor, he is recruited for critical Allied missions and works with a mysterious female physicist on a device that could stop World War II—and alter history.

After the crack of a great glacier opens the world for the Raumsdalian Empire, Count Hamnet Thyssen leads a daring expedition seeking the legendary Golden Shrine while facing the ruthless Rulers and navigating alliances with local tribes.

"This first-person narrative about an archaeological discovery is rewriting the story of human evolution. A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger's own take on finding Homo naledi, an all-new species on the human family tree and one of the greatest discoveries of the 21st century. In 2013, Berger, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, caught wind of a cache of bones in a hard-to-reach underground cave in South Africa. He put out a call around the world for petite collaborators--men and women small and adventurous enough to be able to squeeze through 8-inch tunnels to reach a sunless cave 40 feet underground. With this team of "underground astronauts," Berger made the discovery of a lifetime: hundreds of prehistoric bones, including entire skeletons of at least 15 individuals, all perhaps two million years old. Their features combined those of known prehominids like Lucy, the famous Australopithecus, with those more human than anything ever before seen in prehistoric remains. Berger's team had discovered an all new species, and they called it Homo naledi. The cave quickly proved to be the richest primitive hominid site ever discovered, full of implications that shake the very foundation of how we define what makes us human. Did this species come before, during, or after the emergence of Homo sapiens on our evolutionary tree? How did the cave come to contain nothing but the remains of these individuals? Did they bury their dead? If so, they must have had a level of self-knowledge, including an awareness of death. And yet those are the very characteristics used to define what makes us human. Did an equally advanced species inhabit Earth with us, or before us? Berger does not hesitate to address all these questions. Berger is a charming and controversial figure, and some colleagues question his interpretation of this and other finds. But in these pages, this charismatic and visionary paleontologist counters their arguments and tells his personal story: a rich and readable narrative about science, exploration, and what it means to be human"-- "A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger's own take on finding Homo naledi, an all-new species on the human family tree and one of the greatest discoveries of the 21st century. In 2013, Lee Berger, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, caught wind of a cache of bones in a hard-to-reach underground cave in South Africa. He put out a call around the world for petite collaborators--men and women small and adventurous enough to be able to squeeze through 8-inch tunnels to reach a sunless cave 40 feet underground. With this team of "underground astronauts," Berger made the discovery of a lifetime: hundreds of prehistoric bones, including entire skeletons of at least 15 individuals, all perhaps two million years old. Their features combined those of known prehominids like Lucy, the famous Australopithecus, with those more human than anything ever before seen in prehistoric remains. Berger's team had discovered an all new species, and they called it Homo naledi. The cave quickly proved to be the richest primitive hominid site ever discovered, full of implications that shake the very foundation of how we define what makes us human. Did this species come before, during, or after the emergence of Homo sapiens on our evolutionary tree? How did the cave come to contain nothing but the remains of these individuals? Did they bury their dead? If so, they must have had a level of self-knowledge, including an awareness of death. And yet those are the very characteristics used to define what makes us human. Did an equally advanced species inhabit Earth with us, or before us? Berger does not hesitate to address all these questions"--

In "Influx", suppressed technology forces particle physicist Jon Grady to develop a gravity‑reflecting device that attracts a mysterious future organization.

Stone Spring, a historical fiction novel by Stephen Baxter set in the Mesolithic period of Europe, explores the lives of prehistoric peoples and the climatic changes that shape their world.