Sci-Fi Thriller Books

The best sci-fi thriller eBooks for kindle, nook, iBooks and more, including futuristic fiction, fantasy thrillers with a science fiction angle, and more.

RISE, a Deliciously Dangerous Sci-Fi Thriller by Ron Wolff

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The Bottom Line: RISE proves this series is only getting better: darker, smarter, and more dangerous at every turn. The second book in Ron Wolff’s Colony series, RISE, returns to Mars through the first-person narration of Adam Flynn, the first and only human born on the planet. Months after a massacre at Hellas Station, Adam and four other teenagers are barely keeping the damaged colony

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Highly Compatible, a Seductive Psychological Thriller by Olivia Alder

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The Bottom Line: A seductive, timely and captivating psychological thriller for anyone wondering how much autonomy we will trade for comfort. In Highly Compatible, thirty-year-old Nina Jacobs is already living inside the future she helps sell. She works in Product Marketing at Panopteia, a powerful Silicon Valley AI company whose systems can anticipate a coffee order, monitor wildfire conditions affecting her family’s county, and turn

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No Home Without You, a Post-Apocalyptic Romance Thriller by Lena Gibson

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The Bottom Line: Love in a post-apocalyptic world rarely feels this exciting or dangerous. Lena Gibson delivers the goods in this dystopian romance.  In Lena Gibson’s No Home Without You, Earth has been remade by an asteroid strike, and human survival now depends on security and the difficult question of who gets protected when there are not enough resources to go around. Vita xTerra is

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Hard Worked Days, a Darkly Funny Alien Contact Thriller by Lawrence P. O’Brien

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The Bottom Line: A bold, darkly funny alien contact thriller where catastrophe is only the beginning and escape may be impossible. Hard Worked Days begins as Fares Khalil, a Lebanese immigrant and Brooklyn building superintendent, tries to fix a tenant’s toilet. Meanwhile across the neighborhood, Ionna Sari is working at Monica’s Bakery, juggling impatient customers, burnt cookies and the kind of ordinary exhaustion that comes

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Asset Nightfall, a Ferociously Intelligent Sci-fi Thriller With a Rebel Heart

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The Bottom Line: Ferociously intelligent sci-fi suspense that crackles with a rebel heart. Douglas has never written with more urgency or momentum. Asset Nightfall opens in an interrogation room where legendary hacker Kerstin Ahlers sits before Federation intelligence officers. Now reduced to “Asset Nightfall,” fitted with a neural device and ordered to undertake a mission that is as morally corrosive as it is technically difficult, the Federation regards

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Prior Futures, a Hardboiled Sci-Fi Thriller by Dan Kopcow

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The Bottom Line: A hardboiled sci-fi thriller set in a world where evolution is for sale. As Prior Futures opens, Jeremiah Prior stands knee-deep in the turquoise waters of Antigua, staring at the wreckage of his stilted hut after another violent storm. The former New York detective is now an Authentician, a specialist in verifying rare artifacts. Prior has fled a world divided between the

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The Torus Run is the Year’s Best Spy Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Spy Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. The Torus Run begins in near-future San Francisco, where society’s elite walk with AI “Twins” –  digital doppelgängers embedded in smart glasses that serve as coaches, confidants and much more – while millions lose their jobs. Despite an age of gleaming innovation, danger lurks around every corner.  Against the advice of his

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Extraterrestrial Noir is the Year’s Best Sci-Fi Thriller

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The Bottom Line: Voted the Year’s Best Fantasy & Sci-Fi Thriller in the 2025 BestThrillers.com Book Awards. Extraterrestrial Noir opens on the night of a forecasted meteor shower in suburban New Jersey. The Devine family — husband Connie, wife Maggie, brother Danny and uber-intellectual 12-year-old daughter Mike – gather in the front yard in the hours before dawn to catch a glimpse of the predicted celestial fireworks. However,

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Devil I New 666 Book

666: The Devil I Knew, The Devil I Didn’t Know by Eliade Moldovan

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The Bottom Line: An unforgettable supernatural saga that deftly blurs fact and fiction into something truly original.  666: The Devil I Knew, The Devil I Didn’t Know is unlike any other book you’ll ever read. The concept was borne out of author Eliade Moldovan’s memoir about growing up in Romania during the Cold War. Like a songwriter creating an album, Moldovan prepared 41 stories for the original book, and on the advice

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Colony, a Shockingly Great YA Sci-Fi Thriller by Ron Wolff

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The Bottom Line: A shockingly great YA Sci-Fi thriller that earns its suspense and pays it off repeatedly. Highly recommended for any sci-fi fan.  At a time when establishing an outpost on Mars seems more plausible than ever before, Ron Wolff’s Colony opens – appetizingly so – with a detailed schematic diagram of Hellas Station, a base for human colonization and scientific exploration. What follows next is

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