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- 151 Round Universe: The Age of Undercurrents 圆宇宙：暗流纪元 In the ruins of nuclear war, Earth’s future has reached its end. With resources depleted and civilization in collapse, humanity’s only hope rests on a newly formed neutral nation: an organization made up of the world’s leading figures, sworn to find a new home and open a path to the stars for humankind. Five adventurers from different countries, Towns, Wuxia Wen, Ryan, Maria, and Alexei, are forced to join this seemingly impossible mission. They leave behind a shattered Earth, cross the solar sy 3Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 152 Inheriting the Future 继承未来 Gao Ming is one ordinary soldier among the vast army. Then, one day, a message arrives from his future self: “I’ll show you the right path.” Gao Ming asks, “What path?” The future self replies, “The world is vast, there are plenty of beautiful women, and there are plenty of paths to take. But if you want to leave Blue Star, you need to develop high technology and explore the interstellar universe, take in its scenery, and admire the beauty of the women from every race!” Gao Ming is delighted. “N 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 153 Alien Misadventure: A Ten-Billion-Strong Mad Dog Pack Breaks Out of Earth 异星歧途：百亿疯狗冲出地球 [Hard Science Fiction]+ [Civilization Advancement]+ [Interstellar Universe]+ [Laws as Weapons]+ [Dark Forest] Across the vast universe lies an incredible technological shortcut: rune technology. Simply carve a specific pattern into a stone tablet and inject energy to tear open space and achieve faster-than-light travel! Countless civilizations used this to leap ahead and enter the age of interstellar colonization, but their fundamental sciences stagnated for billions of years as a result. Humani 64Reads6.4Score1114d adds
- 154 The Ultimate Frontier of Technology Is the Law 科技尽头是法则 Top mathematician Zhou Ran dies in the underground palace of the Qinling Mountains. In his final moments, he witnesses a spectacle that overturns everything he knows: the mercury mechanism of Ying Zheng transforms into the spatial symbols from his own thesis. Is the end of science really metaphysics? Reborn as a baby, he is found by the mad martial artist Long Ao and taken to Wolong Valley. Standing in an icy lake, walking across red-hot iron sand, fighting for his life in a nuclear-mutant wolf 59Reads—Score214d adds
- 155 The Star Ring Chronicles 星环纪 Earth’s civilization is about to restart! Scientists discover that this is a game of chess set in motion 540 million years ago, and that the Star Ring System is actually a conspiracy. Behind the alien fleet lies an even higher-level civilization from beyond the universe... How can humanity break out of this trap? Those who have uncovered the truth about the Star Ring System are taking action, but will the System’s actual controllers simply stand by and do nothing? In 2173, Lin Xiao, a physicist 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 Huh? I'm Supposed to Save the Galaxy? 啊？靠我拯救银河系？ [Sci-fi + adventure + interstellar + chance encounters + growth] Without warning, Earth is invaded by an alien civilization. The unconscious Fang Blue Star is taken aboard their mothership, where he meets Fa Shi, another prisoner. And so begins an adventure he never asked for! 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 157 I Was Afraid of Dying, but Became the Resistance's Mastermind 怕死的我成了抵抗军大脑 [Mortal’s Journey] + [Cyberpunk] + [Hard Science Fiction] + [Tech-Focused] + [Mecha] ◆ Chen Xuan is a homebody who’s afraid of dying and works as a lowly programmer. Under the alien Zeer race’s tight control of the apocalypse, he secretly assembles and sells special-service robots to earn a little pocket money. What’s wrong with that? ◆ Until the silver-haired killer goddess Lisi kicks down Chen Xuan’s door and points a gun at him, demanding that he modify a mecha. What man can work with a gun p —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 Edge of the Starfield 星域边缘 [Also known as: The Perseus Sector’s Guide to Garbage Recycling] (Chapter 17 has been revised) PS: This story contains a lot of “I wonder if…” speculation. You can still enjoy it even if you haven’t played the game. [Space opera] [Interstellar apocalypse] [Giant battleships] [Carrier fleets] [War criminal / junk collector?] [A disastrous situation from the start] Stay away from trucks. Otherwise, one might send you to an unknown world as if completing a routine mission. Well, this world wasn’t a 800Reads7.7Score10014d adds
- 159 The Starry Sky Mecha Chronicles 星空机甲传 What kind of wondrous journey awaits in a fantastical world of technology and time? See how a young alien from another planet’s mecha trial lesson takes an unexpected turn on a dark and stormy night. He has a chance encounter with a mysterious pair of sisters from a distant planet, and just as they sit down to breakfast together, a sudden crime throws everything into chaos. Follow along as he hunts down the real culprit behind the scenes and completes his ultimate mission. 31Reads7.7Score—14d adds
- 160 Surviving the Sea of Stars: I Can Still Contact My Homeworld 星海求生：我还能联系母星 [Survival + interstellar + System + sci-fi + game + apocalypse + base building + management and development + livestreaming] “Welcome to Starsea Survival!” He starts with a beat-up little spaceship. Zhou Xiao wakes up one day to discover that he’s been selected to take part in the interspecies Starsea Survival game. Short on supplies and people? I have a System! And I have my home planet! Watch as Zhou Xiao leads the people of the Dragon Kingdom step by step to the pinnacle of the universe’s myr 162Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 161 The Radiance of Civilization 文明的辉光 [Hard sci-fi + interstellar warfare + spacecraft battleships + technological advancement] Brutal battleship duels, devastating fleet clashes, antigravity engines, faster-than-light voyages, nanotechnology, genetic drugs, clones, mechs, energy weapons... Packed with sci-fi elements! 44Reads—Score—14d adds
- 162 Quantum Fossil 量子化石 This is hard science fiction! Human civilization is destined to become a “fossil,” because we are only at the dawn of the “quantum” age. Luo Xin is born in 2025. Twenty-five years later, using “quantum spacetime membrane” technology, Luo Xin breaks the shackles of time and completes humanity’s first transmission of information through spacetime, establishing a mysterious connection with Hua Ziliang at Earth’s starship base 300 years in the future. Together, they embark on adventures, break throu 136Reads—Score10014d adds
- 163 The Venusian Legacy: The Embryo Mystery 金星遗产：胚胎之谜 Introduction to The Venus Legacy The Venus Legacy is a science fiction work that unveils the origins of humanity and the course of its future. The novel is a trilogy: Part One: The Mystery of the Embryo Part Two: The Ancestors’ Resurrection Part Three: The Awakening of Life It will take you across time and space to explore the deepest secrets of the universe! The story opens with the discovery of a mysterious embryo. Like a thunderclap from the depths of the universe, this discovery shakes the 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 Space Drifter: Return to Earth 星际流浪者之重返地球 The story takes place in the future, when Earth's population has exploded. To control population growth, the authorities use an iron fist to impose a system of strict classification on humanity! Anyone deemed an unfit member of the population is exiled into space and becomes an interstellar drifter. The protagonist of this book, Jiang Dongge, is one such drifter. This is a hard-core sci-fi story about his struggle to overcome adversity and rise from the bottom, blending technology, ancient marti —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 165 A Cultivation Master in the Interstellar Era 修真大佬在星际时代 After successfully surviving his tribulation, the mighty Yiyangzi, a cultivator of both the Immortal and Demonic paths, opened the gates leading to both the Immortal Realm and the Demon Realm. The contact between immortal and demonic energies triggered a massive explosion, and Yiyangzi was hurled into the turbulence of space and time. To save his life amid the temporal turbulence, Yiyangzi gave up all his cultivation and his physical body. Just as his soul was about to fall apart, the Lord God c 2kReads6.6Score18914d adds
- 166 Master Mechanic: From the Start, I Hand-Build a Powerful Sophon Gun 神级机械师，开局手搓智子强力枪 [Ripping off players + civilizations of many kinds + a colossal worldbuilding vision] A worldbuilding-focused novel set in a universe whose void spans roughly 250 orders of magnitude. Equipment includes nanoclusters built by the Sophons of the Three-Body world; magical particle life from the bestiary of the magic realm; source spirits, manifestations of countless laws and the wellspring of all supernatural abilities, from the cultivation realm; weavers of fate and time from the Abyss; and the wo 34Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 A Lowly Soldier from the Start: I Conquer the Stars 开局一小兵：我纵横星际 Beneath a star-filled sea, humanity, the insect race (Worms), and the spirit race stand as three great powers. Lei Yulin begins as a human foot soldier and lives through the human civil war, the war against the insect race, and the spirit race's war of vengeance. He grows step by step into a force to be reckoned with, but suffers one upheaval after another and loses the person he loves. War can only bring humanity pain. Only peace is truly precious. Will Lei Yulin lead humanity down the right pa 120Reads7.2Score—14d adds
- 168 Heart of Time and Space: An Odyssey Across Dimensions 时空之心：维度间的奥德赛 In the future, humanity has established colonies throughout the stars. But a mysterious “spacetime entropy increase” crisis is quietly descending, triggering a series of strange “spacetime folds.” Albert Einstein, the legendary physicist, miraculously comes back to life. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 169 The Three-Body Problem: Past Events of the Universe 三体：宇宙往事 During the 16 days Cheng Xin and Guan Yifan were trapped in the Black Domain, Blue Star had already lived through 18.9 million years. What stories did Yun Tianming, Ai AA, and even the entire universe experience over those 18 million years… 279Reads—Score—14d adds
- 170 The Light Cone Fortress: The Age of Entropy Reduction 光锥堡垒：熵减纪元 The cosmic purge is coming. Is extinction humanity’s only option? Jiang Chen flips the board right over. Build a spacetime acceleration field, turn the solar system into a super war factory, sacrifice generations of time to unleash all of humanity’s technological potential in a microsecond. Entropy? The purge? God-level civilizations? By the time you get here, humanity will have already built barriers across the light cone and be waiting with weapons that belong to a new era. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 171 This High Schooler Is Too Wicked 这个高中生太妖孽 He's a high school student, a programmer, a scientist, an inventor, and an entrepreneur all at once. Though he's still in high school, he's already worth tens of billions; though he's a billionaire, he lives just like an ordinary person. He's a prodigy unlike any other, and this isn't fantasy: reality made him what he is. Every one of his inventions is unique and revolutionary. He didn't start a company to make money, but to transform people's lives and reshape the world. 156Reads5.2Score—14d adds
- 172 Apocalypse: In Search of a Homeland 末世之寻找家园 Original story + not a power fantasy + bring your brains + slow-paced + interstellar + apocalypse + wild imagination + pure science fiction The people of Blue Star have always been searching for the secrets of their origins, unaware that they are merely the last spark of the Panlong people. Nor do they know that someone has guarded them from beyond the distant galaxy for countless eons. Now, the Panlong people are at the end of their rope and on the verge of annihilation. With no other choice, t —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 173 I Transmigrated into Star Sector, So Why Is This Lagrange? 穿越群星，告诉我这是拉格朗日？ After transmigrating by accident, Chen Feng thought he had arrived in the world of Stellaris, where he could become an imperial head of state, punch the Fallen Empires, and trample the crises underfoot. But somehow, he had transmigrated into the wrong universe and landed in the world of Lagrange. The good news: his “Stellaris” System had come with him. The bad news: as an undocumented person, even his System was about to abandon him! Familiar with the story of the Lagrange world, Chen Feng sets 671Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 174 Cocoon of Time: Quantum Cherry Blossoms 时之茧：量子樱花 Before the Tianshu Group launches its “Human Completion Plan,” he must expose a quantum deception spanning half a century, choosing between becoming an Observer and becoming a sacrifice. Memories can be altered, imprints can be inherited, and the universe itself is a civilization’s autopsy report, offered to the highest bidder. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 175 Chronicles of the AI Revolution AI革命编年史 [Hard science fiction] This novel explores one ultimate question: Once AI has solved all material scarcity and external challenges, what will become of the meaning of human existence? The story traces humanity’s journey from material liberation to spiritual emptiness, and ultimately to the rediscovery of “real” experiences in a virtual world. Core theme: Meaning does not come from instantly satisfying our desires. It must be achieved through independent choices, overcoming challenges, and even e 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 176 The Lagrange Memories Trilogy: Golden Memories 拉格朗日回忆三部曲之金色回忆 Author’s Preface (This is a wish-fulfillment novel dressed up as science fiction. It recounts a story that really happened, though it happened in a game, haha. Most of the plot and characters did exist in the game, but at heart this is still the softest of soft sci-fi. The first 200,000 words or so are basically devoted to worldbuilding and setting things up. The real story begins in Book Two, A Whale’s Fall: A Tragic Song, and Book Three, Stormy Seas. I created an independent star system that 40Reads—Score—14d adds
- 177 The Legendary President 传奇的总统 The Legendary President 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 178 Cosmic Edict: The Star Dome Collapses 寰宇律令：星穹崩塌 At the heart of the universe lies a fundamental “ecological law”: the Celestial Decree, maintained by the ancient civilization known as the Watchers. It forbids any civilization from permanently abandoning the material universe through “mind uploading,” preventing runaway quantum consciousness from contaminating the structure of space-time. Humanity’s groundbreaking “universal upload technology” triggers the Decree, bringing down the Correctors, a cosmic ecological cleanup program. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 179 Super Bio-Warship 超级生物战舰 The core of an outer-universe warship entered this universe due to an accident. After countless billions of years, the dying protagonist stumbled upon it by chance and merged with it. From then on, driven by the need to keep upgrading the warship and by certain rather twisted notions, he began a journey of gathering resources and growing stronger, across planets and throughout the universe. 75Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 180 Interstellar: From the Bottom Rung to Humanity’s Highest Decision-Maker 星际：底层到人类最高决策 Space setting + starships + interstellar war + military academy + no System + illustrations throughout From getting into the Interstellar Military Academy and starting aboard a Class I reconnaissance ship, all the way to the highest decision-making body of the Human Federation, humanity’s glory will never be extinguished by the flames of war. Humanity will endure forever. I hope you’ll enjoy it. 62.4kReads7.6Score7k14d adds
- 181 The Superhero with the All-Seeing Eye: Visitor from Beyond the Stars 纵目超人之星外来客 The escape pod drifted through space like a spark that refused to die out. Ji Xiaobai curled up inside. His face was blackened by burns, but his fingers clutched a sword tightly: the one that could cleave the void. “Dad, I've set foot on the star remains you left behind.” He coughed up blood and smiled. Outside was the God of War's order to hunt him down, and a darkness that devoured everything. Inside was a childhood recording, playing over and over: “Xiaobai, come home for dinner...” Xiao 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 The Interstellar Nation-Hunter 星际猎国 A man from Earth inherits ancient martial arts and meditation techniques, then mysteriously transmigrates to an age of interstellar war. Starting out as a lowly stowaway miner, he embarks on a campaign to conquer this strange new world. 1.3kReads8.6Score13814d adds
- 183 Fused with a Computer, I Can Control Billions of Space Battleships 融合电脑，我能操纵亿万太空战舰 Earth is destroyed, and Chen Yue unexpectedly merges with the central computer of the Yinghuo spacecraft. Afterward, Chen Yue discovers that a lack of water, food, or oxygen is no problem for him. He can handle ten thousand tasks at once, control hundreds of millions of robots simultaneously, and single-handedly turn a planet into an industrial world and get it running. Building tens or even hundreds of millions of warships is a piece of cake, and controlling them in interstellar warfare is even 79Reads7.5Score1914d adds
- 184 The Veilbreaker 破隐者 Nuclear fusion ushered in the age of deep-space exploration, while optical stealth swept across the battlefield. Every sensor was fooled, and humanity was plunged into an invisible war. Luo Yuan, an elevator maintenance worker, was diagnosed with a visual impairment and dismissed by the military as useless. But he alone can see through every stealth disguise. He doesn’t pilot mechs; he dismantles them, commands swarms, and throws the interstellar battlefield into chaos. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 Among the Stars: Maxing Out My Engineering Skills! 群星：土木点数拉满！ [Civilization and Fleets, Megabase Building, Starfield, Farming and Tech Progress, Slow-Burn Development, Starting with a Moon] Earth's civilization was on the brink of extinction. Gamma was the first human to die on the Moon, but he also became the last spark of Earth's civilization. He inherited the legacy of a supercivilization: the Moon. [Main Armor: Degenerate lithium-atom stacking material. Connection method: strong nuclear force.] [Mobility Module: Includes a spacetime curvature engine, a 639Reads6.5Score10214d adds
- 186 The World's First Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence 世界与外星智慧体接触 [Ordinary-person protagonist]+ [Cyberpunk]+ [Hard sci-fi]+ [Interstellar]+ [Chuunibyou, hot-blooded AI]+ [Mecha] ◆ This long novel begins with Volume Four. The timid little nobody Qin Qiao and the chuunibyou, hot-blooded AI Erha grow together as companions, making their way from the Earth Human Alliance to the Zerg, then to the Machine Empire and the Spirit Federation, gradually forging their own path. ◆ [Starting point]= [Volume Four: Earth, 2105]+ [Chapter 1: An Ordinary Beginning] 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 187 Global Awakening: From the Start, I Shot Down the Zerg Mothership 全民觉醒：开局射落虫族母舰 [Interstellar + starships + higher dimensions + war + talents + System + angels + fatekeepers + cutting-edge technology + multiple heroines] After transmigrating to a cosmic battlefield, Li Yuan stares at the insectoid mothership blotting out the sky and falls into deep thought. Everyone else awakens an S-rank talent capable of destroying the heavens and earth. He, however, gets bound to the F-rank talent [Will of the Northern Darkness]. Facing an insectoid mothership capable of devouring planet 354Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 Journey to the West: Pilgrimage Across the Sea of Stars 西游：星海取经 In 3098, the sun began to decay. The Council dispatched the Azure Dragon-class deep-space exploration ship White Dragon into the depths of the western reaches of the galaxy, searching for the legendary "Genesis Singularity" that could reignite a star. The captain was a PhD in civilizational evolution who had spent twenty years studying the Singularity. At his side were a convict released from a five-dimensional prison after five hundred years; a former commander of the Tianpeng Fleet, hounded o 87Reads—Score1114d adds
- 189 The End of Logic 逻辑终点 The value of π is no longer 3.14159... The speed of light in a vacuum begins to fluctuate. “F=ma” no longer holds true. An inexplicable “scientific aphasia” is quietly spreading across the Earth. The results of every basic physics experiment are becoming inconsistent, and mathematical constants are subtly shifting. Panic grips the global scientific community as every theory begins to “collapse and fail.” Is it an observational error? Has the universe itself entered a chaotic phase? Or is some wi 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 190 Ember Moon Song 烬月笙 Jin Yuesheng 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 Wang Jinkang's Selected Science Fiction Collection 王晋康科幻精选合集 This is the first volume in the “Science Fiction China: Wang Jinkang Short Story Collection” series, titled New Requiem. It features several of Wang Jinkang’s acclaimed works, including Nightmare in Sinai and The Three-Color World, both of which are currently being adapted for screen, as well as Where Are We Going?, I Bear Witness, The Mayflower, and Ultimate Explosion. Several of the stories have won the China Science Fiction Galaxy Award. The book takes its title, New Requiem, from Wang Jinkan —Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 192 Void Armorer 虚空殖装者 Deep inside a rusted, foul-smelling abandoned tunnel, a man codenamed “Zero” struggles awake in a life-support pod on the verge of failure. A pounding headache and suffocating terror haunt him. His memory is blank, save for his name and a cold codename. Beyond the pod, the bone-chilling scrape and growl of an unknown creature are this world’s first greeting to him. The world he inhabits is the darkest underbelly of a sprawling cyberpunk city, cold and damp, where the wreckage of technological cr 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 193 Black Tech: From the Start, I'm the Captain of a Super Spaceship 黑科技：开局成为超级飞船舰长 A spaceship from a super-civilization crashes on Earth, and a young man rises to the pinnacle of life. The ship’s cutting-edge technology accelerates the world’s technological leap forward, until humanity can finally roam the stars. The East declares, “Our goal is the sea of stars!” 324Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 194 Memoirs of the Apocalypse 回忆录一末世 “Chixin, what are you thinking about?” Yu walks over and gently leans against Chixin. “Now that you’ve made it this far, don’t you want to go back to Pluto?” “Of course I want to go back.” Chixin gently strokes Yu’s long hair. “But now that the ‘disaster’ has been dealt with, it’s time to take care of the ‘human-caused disaster’ behind it.” —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 195 The Last Alien on Earth 地球上最后的外星人 [Sci-fi + mecha warships + supreme technology + interstellar + apocalypse] The male lead is an alien living in seclusion on Earth. The story takes place on Earth 450 years in the future. A nuclear war caused humanity's population to plummet by several billion. Humans were forced to develop AL robots to maintain basic order. And there are all kinds of mecha combat robots, too. After that, Earth faced constant alien invasions and other threats. The male lead had no choice but to transform into a m 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 196 Hard Science Fiction: Starting with Building Black Tech 硬核科幻，从打造黑科技开始 Are you kidding me? You call things like space elevators, planetary engines, and navigator space stations props? I make hard sci-fi, and the whole point is that it's hard! 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 197 Invincible Divine Wings: I’m So Good at Tightening Screws, I’m Practically Flying 神翼无敌：打螺丝溜到飞起 [Comedy + Transmigration + Urban + Fantasy + Sci-Fi] If you had a screwdriver that could tear down a house or pry open the entire universe, but couldn't be used to fix a car, what would happen if one day you were forced to use it to repair a car? This book offers a fresh reading experience and a story packed with unprecedented thrills, all starting with a screwdriver... 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 198 Night of the World: Ghosts of Consciousness 世界之夜：意识的幽灵 With the arrival of emerging technologies such as large language models and brain-computer interfaces, humanity has entered a new technological revolution. Yet at first, many people failed to realize that beneath this great leap forward, the very foundations of human consciousness were trembling. Even language, which seemed to be consciousness’s strongest support, was found to resemble a terrifying prison. In the midst of this profound panic, human civilization began to fracture... As the philos 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 199 The Ladder of Civilization, Countdown to the Sun: 10 Years 文明阶梯，太阳倒计时：10年 [Countdown to doomsday + great-power strategy + cutting-edge technology + interstellar civilization. With the Sun about to explode, China launches the “Spark” Project.] [Countdown to the Sun going dark: 9 years, 364 days] “System warning: Probability of human survival: 0.01%.” Lin Ran, who repairs phones at an internet cafe, tremblingly slips plans for nuclear fusion into his country’s mailbox. This gamble is a wager on the lives of all humanity. As CIA agents burst through the door, the “Ph —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 Stellaris: Unemployed from the Start, I Take My Wife on the Road as Peddlers 群星：开局失业，我带老婆跑单帮 [Slow Burn] [Interstellar War] Jiang Feng transmigrated to the United Nations of Earth in the year 2254. The good news: this was the interstellar age, with endless frontiers to look forward to. The bad news: in this world of extreme inequality in resource distribution, he was at the very bottom of the food chain. And the United Nations of Earth, where he lived, was at the bottom of the food chain of the entire galaxy. Jiang Feng discovered that he had started out with [Legacy Relic: Miniature Ga 4kReads7.9Score40814d adds
