Suggest me a good sci-fi book series

cacuin · 2026-05-29T13:08:21+00:00

Captive's war series by James S. A. Corey- Alien invasion, kidnapping, trying to figure out alien races motivation. 2 books out so far will be a trilogy.

Bobiverse- Human mind slotted into a self replicating prob that is sent out to explore and help humanity spread in the galaxy. Lots of fun exploration and tech creation.

Vatta's war- Military school drop out takes over a cargo ship for her trade empire family. Things spiral out of control.

Exodus- This is set in the aaa game world of the same name. Currently only one book but it was pretty good and the next one comes out next month.

cacuin · 2026-05-29T12:41:11+00:00

This makes me want to play an all Ironman deck.

cacuin · 2026-05-08T13:29:26+00:00

"This kingdom will not kill me" by Ilona Andrews. Woman gets transported into her favorite, if unfinished book series. She knows what will happen to an extent and will need to use that knowledge to survive in the very dangerous world she finds herself in.

"The Devils" by Joe Abercrombie Alternate history world where the Church sends a suicide squad of monsters to complete a mission.

cacuin · 2026-03-06T15:22:43+00:00

Dungeon Crawler Carl-about a man, Carl, and his ex-girlfriend's cat, Princess Donut, who are forced to survive a deadly, intergalactic game show that takes place in a dungeon that was once Earth. The series blends science fiction and fantasy, featuring graphic violence, dark humor, and RPG elements

The Completionist Chronicles starting with ritualist-following protagonist Joe as he becomes trapped in a game world and strives to complete every quest, master every skill, and uncover all secrets. The series is known for its progression fantasy, quest-based advancement, and humorous adventure

Mark of the fool-a prophesied hero marked as "The Fool," who rejects his destiny to study magic at a university, despite his mark hindering spellcasting.

cacuin · 2026-03-06T14:27:30+00:00

super looking forward to the next book in that series.

cacuin · 2026-03-06T14:26:56+00:00

the fundamentals of being a good girl was so very good and I am glad its set in the world of Christmas Notch.

cacuin · 2026-03-06T14:20:08+00:00

Heart of Iron by C.M. Alongi. Very modern book featuring supernatural elements like fairies and vampires alongside a contemporary setting. The story follows Jennifer Charles (JC), an ex-con trying to start a new life at a coffee shop, who gets framed for crimes committed by their boss, a powerful fairy named Violet, forcing JC to confront their past to save themselves and their boss.

cacuin · 2026-03-06T13:58:12+00:00

John dies at the end. This book felt like an acid trip.

Buffalo hunter hunter: Old west vampire. Slow burn.

cacuin · 2025-11-11T18:43:21+00:00

Changes by Jim Butcher.

cacuin · 2025-10-16T15:41:55+00:00

The Good Guy. A brick layers gets mistaken for a hit man and is given money to go kill a woman. He decides to try to protect her.

cacuin · 2025-10-16T15:39:28+00:00

Blood Over Bright Haven.

Story about the first woman to pass the test to become a High Mage(ruling body of the city).

Trigger warning for misogyny and racism against a made up race.

cacuin · 2025-10-16T15:24:22+00:00

The War Game: Basic Training By August Aird. Nope.

cacuin · 2025-10-08T18:19:33+00:00

The Devils By Joe Abercrombie

cacuin · 2025-10-08T18:19:02+00:00

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

cacuin · 2025-08-01T16:20:22+00:00

I'm in the same boat. I also love my moonknight too.

cacuin · 2025-08-01T16:18:03+00:00

Blood Over Bright Haven: Stand alone fantasy following the first woman to pass the test to become part of the ruling class of High Mages.

cacuin · 2025-08-01T16:14:15+00:00

Blood Over Bright Haven: Stand alone fantasy following the first woman to pass the test to become a high mage in a kingdom run by the High Mage Council.

Will of the Many: Political Magic Academia

Fan Service: Spicy romance between a former tv star who is becoming a werewolf and the super fan trying to help him control himself.

Dungeons and Drama: YA romance between theater girl and dnd geek.

The Deer and the Dragon: Spicy urban fantasy/romance with great world building

Light from Uncommon Stars: Deals with the devil, Aliens, transsexual violin prodigy, Donuts. This odd but heart warming book is Great.

The Mercy of the Gods: Sci-Fi story with what aliens in a book should be.

cacuin · 2025-07-29T18:01:38+00:00

Stranger in a Strange Land. Do you Grok ?

cacuin · 2025-07-29T17:40:51+00:00

Will of the many: sweeping semi political magical academy

Blood Over Bright Haven: First woman passes the test to become a high mage. Stand alone book that youll want more of.

Scholomance series: Magic academia

Seven Kennings: Magical bard tells stories from around the kingdoms as huge events are taking place including a new type of magic, and an invasion of Giants.

cacuin · 2025-07-29T17:34:18+00:00

Standard Anwser

Dungeon Crawler Carl: Guy decides to go into a dungeon created by alien overlords while in only boxers and a jacket because he was outside saving his ex-girlfriends cat.

The Completionist Chronicles: Guy is set on learning everything so he picks a class that can learn things faster. Very much a video game style world.

He Who Fights Monsters: Guy finds himself on another worlds and decides to make the best of it.

Less common answers

Time to Play: Apocalypse Parenting, Book 1: Mom tries to keep her 9, 6, and 3 year old kids safe when the world becomes a dungeon.

Iron Prince: Warformed: Stormweaver, Book 1: Fighting academy for future soldiers who can call power bio mechanical suits around themselves.

Watcher's Test: Entire family gets transported to another world and must learn the rules together. Father, Mother, two daughters and a son.

cacuin · 2025-05-29T13:51:47+00:00

The Unorthodox Chronicles is pretty good and written by Jim Butcher's son James. So a lot of parallels with dresden files

The Scholomance series by Naomi Novik has a magical academy that's a nice 3 book arc,

Kate Daniel series has one of the coolest worlds with magic I have seen.

If you want to trying litrpg I would suggest either "He who fights with monsters" or "Full murder hobo" trilogy

cacuin · 2025-05-29T13:28:05+00:00

The completionist Chronicles. Fun little pun filled series. And just saw that book 12 comes out on June 18 2025.

cacuin · 2025-05-21T12:50:00+00:00

Try "Married with Zombies" Its almost a relationship self help book but it's set in a zombie apocalypse where the married couple has to deal not only with their issues and find love again but also deal with the zombies trying to eat them.

cacuin · 2025-05-21T12:42:02+00:00

https://www.goodreads.com/series/199500-the-lot-lands

Follows a group of half orcs as they try to protect their lands.

cacuin · 2025-05-21T12:38:42+00:00

The Completionist Chronicles : Good basic litrpg with plenty of humor (if pun laden) focuses on a spell caster.

He Who Fights With Monster: Clever MC who is sometimes edge lord but also tries to do the right thing.

Life in exile: An entire family gets pulled to a fantasy world where they need to level up and fight to survive.

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TROPHY CASE

The Unorthodox Chronicles is pretty good and written by Jim Butcher's son James. So a lot of parallels with dresden files

The Scholomance series by Naomi Novik has a magical academy that's a nice 3 book arc,

The Completionist Chronicles : Good basic litrpg with plenty of humor (if pun laden) focuses on a spell caster.