Tales of a Civilization Crisis

Give Me Some Truly Great Reads. I'm Really, Really Out of Books

Looking for books similar to *Transmigrating into a Single-Player Game: I Broke the NPCs*.

Any New Authors Getting Single-Digit Read Counts?

I want to see who has it worse than me 😅

Read New Books in Full, Review Each Other’s Work, and Improve Completion Rates

I want something like Transmigrating Across Ten Thousand Years to Find You. New authors, let’s support each other: I’ll read yours if you read mine! I’ll leave a five-star review after I finish!

Hard Sci-Fi Only, No Soft Sci-Fi

Looking for hard sci-fi novels.

Looking for Books by New Authors

Tell me about any good books you've got.

Looking for Thought-Provoking Books

Looking for books with characters who are smart and capable. No brainless stories or pure wish fulfillment; I want something with depth. Even better if it explores traditional culture.

Mecha Stories and Sci-Fi: Where Have All the Great Ones Gone?

“Flesh is weak; embrace the machine” shouldn't just be a slogan. True machines shouldn't have feelings at all! Most mechanical sci-fi these days is about someone being reincarnated or accidentally becoming someone or something, followed by pages and pages of personal drama and romance.

Looking for Something Truly Excellent. It’s Been Ages Since I Found One

I came to Tomato Novel just to read Slay the Gods. Since finishing it, I haven’t found anything else worth reading. Lately, I haven’t felt much like reading.

Looking for an Innovative Book. They All Follow the Same Formula These Days

Male-lead novels only. I've read so many books lately that I can't get through them. After reading a little, I can already guess all the tropes to come. Nothing feels original. Please recommend something different and new!

No Power Fantasies or Mindless Stories: Something Substantial and Not Cringey

After reading a few books that really make you think, I can't get into brainless stories anymore. It's frustrating. (No heroine, or just one heroine, but don't demean women, or I really can't stand it.)

Hard Science Fiction Similar to The Three-Body Problem

New Book Hub: Stories Over 100,000 Characters with No Reviews Yet

Looking for books similar to *Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk*. Let's encourage each other! There are so many books on Tomato Novel. Keep going. If writing is your passion, drop this one and start over. If it's how you make a living, keep at it.

Any Good Science Fiction Novels?

I want something imaginative but logically sound. No transmigration.

Humanity Is Ignorant and Foolish. The World Belongs to the Trisolarans!

Please Recommend Science Fiction on the Level of The Three-Body Problem

Hmm... something like Right Eye, for example.

Sci-Fi Novels With Prose Like Liu Cixin's

I especially love Liu Cixin’s science fiction. His stories feel completely fresh to me. I’m not so keen on sci-fi about love between humans and AI, or stories focused on human emotions and introspection against a sci-fi backdrop. I’m hoping to find some hard sci-fi.

Scientific Research With No Scheming or Face-Slapping

A highly intelligent but socially clueless protagonist would work too. Their achievements don’t necessarily have to become known to the public, but they should be based on established knowledge, not made up out of nowhere.

Hard Sci-Fi, Interstellar Travel or Drifting, and Alien Civilizations

I don't like stories that are constantly at war, fighting from beginning to end, from the Solar System all the way to the Milky Way. I prefer nuanced portrayals of alien societies and storylines, as if observing another civilization.

There Are No Pure Science Fiction Novels Anymore, Are There? Come Argue With Me

The streets are packed with transmigration, reborn protagonists, overpowered heroes, and Systems. It's hard not to suspect these are written by AI. Is there any real hard science fiction out there?

Are There Any Hard Science Fiction Novels Like The Three-Body Problem?

Preferably not the starship civilization trope I've seen a million times.

Three-Body Stories! Three-Body Stories! Three-Body Stories! The Three-Body Animation Made Me Furious

Looking for books like *The Three-Body Problem: I'm Really Not a Wallfacer*. Give me some Three-Body stories. The heavily altered versions are just awful, and I couldn't get through the Three-Body animation, so give me some Three-Body novels instead. <(｀^´)>

Any Science Fiction Novels With a Grand Sense of Scale and Advanced Technology?

Any science fiction novels? I want a grand sense of scale, advanced technology, adventure, a protagonist who isn't a self-sacrificing saint, and monsters to fight.

New Authors Welcome, with No Rating Yet, but Stories with Ratings and Readers Don’t Count

Please give a new writer and their new book a boost. If you're interested, let's learn from and borrow ideas from each other. If you add it to your favorites, I'll leave a comment under your post!

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