Books like Fantastic Voyage
12 books with a reading profile close to Fantastic Voyage by Isaac Asimov. Outward-looking, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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3001: The Final Odyssey
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Frank Poole, the astronaut killed by the computer HAL 9000 in the first installment, is recovered from the vacuum of space a millennium later.
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2
The Algebraist
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Fassin Taak, a slow-life seeker, travels into the atmosphere of the gas giant Nasqueron to locate a legendary set of coordinates.
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Redshirts
by John Scalzi
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Andrew Dahl joins the crew of the Intrepid, the flagship of the Universal Union, only to discover a lethal pattern among the junior officers.
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Micro
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, science fiction
In this technothriller, seven graduate students travel to Hawaii for jobs at Vin Drake’s cutting-edge biotech firm, Nanigen.
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House of M
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, suffers a psychological breakdown that threatens the fabric of reality.
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Next
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Next is a molecular biology thriller set in a world where genetic sequences are privatized and human cells are patented property.
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The Swarm
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Off the coast of Norway, a new species of aggressive worms destroys methane hydrate deposits, destabilizing the continental shelf.
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Reamde
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, science fiction
Richard Forthrast, an entrepreneur and former draft dodger, builds a fortune through a massive multiplayer online role-playing game called T’Rain.
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The Supernaturalist
by Eoin Colfer
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · entertainment, science fiction
Cosmo Hill is a fourteen-year-old boy in the grim Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys, a futuristic orphanage in Satellite City where children are used as subjects in tests.
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Dry
Also escapist · entertainment, science fiction
In a sudden environmental collapse known as the Tap-Out, Southern California’s water supply is terminated, leaving millions in a lethal drought.
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The Running Man
Also escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Set in a decaying 2025 where industrial pollution chokes the poor, the story follows Ben Richards, a desperate man who enters a lethal reality television program to fund medical care for his dying daughter.
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Paper Girls, Volume 2
Also escapist · entertainment, science fiction
After being thrust through a rift in time, 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls KJ, Mac, and Tiff land in 2016 Cleveland.
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