Books like The lives of Tao by Wesley Chu

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune follows Paul Atreides as he rises from betrayed heir to the enigmatic Muad'Dib, guarding the precious spice melange that fuels galactic politics and extends life.

After a catastrophic pandemic, former actress Kirsten Raymonde joins a traveling troupe that performs Shakespeare for scattered communities, only to confront a ruthless prophet in a desperate quest for survival.

Red Mars chronicles the early days of humanity’s colonization and political upheaval on Mars, blending environmental engineering, terraforming and nation‑building in a hard‑science vision.

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.

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.

After a decade of war follows a fragile cease-fire among the Protoss, Zerg, and Terran forces. When an incinerated planet is unexpectedly restored, old hostilities flare, threatening a galaxy‑wide conflict.

In a utopian California, a society free of poverty and hunger reveres the Four Sacred Things—earth, air, fire, and water—only to confront a dystopian regime that hoards food and water and imposes authoritarian rule.

Anne Rice explores eighteenth‑century Italy with the castrati, the famed male sopranos whose voices enthrall courts and opera houses while their lives are shrouded in scandal.

A haunted dream of a lost civilisation leads Nigel Sheldon to a remote planet in the Void, where he discovers Bienvenido’s survivors battling the Fallers—space‑born predators engineered to dominate worlds, and secret to the Void’s destruction.

In the Mirror Universe… Miles "Smiley" O'Brien struggles to hold together his weary band of freedom fighters in their war against the overwhelming might of the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. Each day pushes the rebels on Terok Nor one step closer to defeat, but with nowhere left to run, the time has come to make their last stand. Light-years away, Mac Calhoun and his Romulan allies harass Klingon forces with devious hit-and-run attacks. But Calhoun has a grander ambition: he intends to merge his fleet with the Terran Rebellion and lead it to victory – or die trying. Meanwhile, a bitter feud threatens to shatter the Alliance from within. The old rivalry between the Klingons and the Cardassians erupts into open warfare as each vies for the upper hand in their partnership. Manipulating events from its hidden redoubts, Memory Omega – the secret operation initiated by Spock a century earlier – sees its plans come to fruition sooner than expected. But striking early means risking everything – and if the revolution fails, Spock's vision for the future will be lost forever.

Taoism explores Chinese philosophy, history, and spiritual practices, from meditation and alchemy to t'ai chi and feng‑shui, offering an accessible overview of its doctrines and traditions.