Novels like The Earth Is Adrift, While I’m Out Scavenging
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- 51 The Stars Never Go Out 恒星不熄 Story Synopsis: Earth’s civilization has never been alone, and humanity’s fate has been fraught with hardship. A devastating gamma-ray burst sweeps across the Milky Way. Greed and conflict in the face of Doomsday accelerate the world’s destruction: Earth crumbles, the Sun is reduced to dust, and the galaxy falls apart. Chen Xiao, a young man from Earth, and Kaidichi, a young man from Nibiru, establish a Doomsday rescue company and lead humanity on a desperate journey among the stars. They enter 466Reads—Score114Shelves
- 52 Technology: From the Start, I Livestreamed Building a Spaceship 科技：开局直播建造宇宙飞船 Bai Hui transmigrates to a parallel world and obtains a cutting-edge technology System. To his surprise, the System’s very first mission is to livestream the construction of a spaceship! Six months later, the ship takes off, shocking the entire nation! “What? Longguo has built an antigravity spaceship, and it’s already been launched into space?” “Where’s our spaceship?” Antigravity spaceships, the Longteng System, Longteng chips... From now on, no one will be able to hold our technology hostage! 1.4kReads8.4Score104Shelves
- 53 Independence Day: A Wild Celebration Without a Master 独立日无主狂欢 [Hard sci-fi + high-IQ power struggles + a crisis threatening the survival of civilization + mind-bending] A science fiction novel blending multiple dimensions, bioscience, astrophysics, the unsolved mysteries of the universe, and much more! Follow and subscribe now! 9Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 Colonizing Venus 金星殖民 [Patriotic wish fulfillment + Interstellar Frontier Development + Technological Supremacy + A World of Great Harmony] In 2125, Earth has just 120 years before its resources run out. The European and American powers have carved up Mars, monopolizing it and shutting others out. Human civilization stands on the brink of extinction! In this desperate moment, 25-year-old genius engineer Xu Xiaowu bursts onto the scene, stunning the world with his Venus terraforming plan! Crash comets into the planet 140Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 I’m Filming The Wandering Earth, So Building a Space Elevator Is Perfectly Reasonable 拍流浪地球我造太空电梯很合理吧 [I’m Filming The Wandering Earth. Isn’t It Reasonable to Build a Space Elevator?] [Movie-Making Black Tech + The Wandering Earth + Film Industry] After transmigrating to a parallel world, Liu Lang graduates from film school and obtains a Movie-Making Black Tech System. The films he creates can become reality. With the film industry rotting under the rule of traffic stars and fan-driven economics, Liu Lang decisively chooses to make science fiction films. Starting with The Wandering Earth, he bu 10.7kReads8.6Score894Shelves
- 56 Journey to the West: A Sci-Fi Retelling 西游科幻版 [Sci-fi Journey to the West + sci-fi Classic of Mountains and Seas + sci-fi In Search of the Supernatural] Deep in the star sector of the Eastern Continent, the quantum-entangled state of an ancient stellar core suddenly collapsed. The energy it released tore through the core of the Flower-Fruit Mountain supercluster. In the lingering shockwaves of a higher-dimensional space-time disturbance, a silicon-based life-form took shape, its body made of flowing crystals and pulsing threads of energy. I 50Reads9.3Score—Shelves
- 57 Tomb Raiding Across Planes, I Become the World's Boss 位面摸金，我成为了世界BOSS [Corporate Empire] [Shadowy Organization] [Super Technology] [Lighthearted] [Plenty of Chapters, Ready to Binge] As Lin Fang was pondering life by the lake, he suddenly acquired a black watch of mysterious origin, one that was nearly omnipotent... And so, After a trip to the Venom universe, a company called Third-Party Biotech quietly opened its doors in the real world. As one apocalyptic crisis after another came knocking, the company took on the responsibility of saving the world. Destroying a 299.2kReads8.4Score46.3kShelves
- 58 The Stars: From Human to God 星空：从人蜕变为神 At the age of 22, Lin Dao suddenly awakened two abilities. Anyone who had heard his name, seen his face, had any direct or indirect contact with him, or knew he existed would become completely loyal to him. And no matter how he died, he could resurrect in the body of any human being. In the early days after his abilities awakened, he did nothing at all. Yet a “god” quickly came into being upon the earth. 4kReads9.0Score267Shelves
- 59 So This Is How You Build a Battleship 战舰还能这么造 Warship design and construction + sales + Terra + farming Development path: transport ships, destroyers, cruisers, carriers, battleships, megastructures. Other things may be added along the way, such as carrier-based aircraft. Warship references: Legend of the Galactic Heroes + 40K + EVE, and so on. Combat follows the 40K style. If you can’t accept that, or want to see ridiculously epic space battles, this probably isn’t for you. Also, I’m a new author, so please don’t flame me. 539Reads6.3Score114Shelves
- 60 From the Start, I Became a Planet on a Collision Course with Earth 开局，成为行星撞地球 What?! I was reincarnated as an asteroid?! What?! Now that I’m an asteroid, I’m going to crash into Earth?! 3.8kReads9.3Score325Shelves
- 61 Superbrain Programmer: From Code Monkey to Ruler of the Stars 超脑程序员：从码农到星际主宰 “If one day your brain became more powerful than a supercomputer, what would you do?” Chen Xing, a 25-year-old programmer, has spent two years struggling in Shenzhen and is still a dirt-poor coder. His parents died early, and he has no one to rely on. He’s like a speck of dust in this city, liable to be swept away by the tides of the times at any moment. Then one night, he trips in an empty alley, splits his forehead, and his blood seeps into the ground. When he wakes up, the world has changed: 5.7kReads7.1Score283Shelves
- 62 I Built a Base Deep in the Mountains, and My Girlfriend Is a Gaming Pro 我在深山建基地，女友是游戏大神 Disclaimer: This is not a brainless power fantasy! This is not a brainless power fantasy! This is not a brainless power fantasy! Shen Yuan, an ordinary programmer, developed a horror game and spent so many nights watching horror movies for inspiration that he suffered a mental breakdown. But he unexpectedly awakened superpowers. Using his superpowers, he developed artificial intelligence and a series of cutting-edge technologies. He secretly built a sci-fi base deep in the mountains and began de 11.7kReads7.2Score698Shelves
- 63 Starting with Sign-In Survival Supplies on The Wandering Earth 从流浪地球签到生存物资开始 Chu Xuan transmigrates into the world of the movie The Wandering Earth, bringing a sign-in System with him! [Congratulations, Host! You signed in and received a bag of fragrant rice!] […] [Congratulations, Host! You signed in and received a fat sheep!] […] [Congratulations, Host! You signed in and received a growth-type dimensional space!] […] While everyone else is eating earthworms, Chu Xuan is fretting over whether to have hot pot or seafood for dinner. Tell me, aren’t you jeal 12.6kReads9.0Score903Shelves
- 64 Transmigrating Through the Myriad Heavens 诸天大穿越 Another lucky soul has arrived! As someone who has transmigrated: benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trustworthiness? Those are sacred things. They’ve deceived countless wanderers through the mortal world... There is no morality or law here, only the survival of the fittest. A true transmigrator doesn’t need to be too kind. Note: Combat power ranges from low to high! Note: Each world is generated independently! Note: There are plenty of other worlds. There’s no room for the 2kReads—Score101Shelves
- 65 A Century of Gacha Pulls Earned Me the Shura Armor and a Wife Named Liang Bing 抽奖百年，得修罗铠甲，老婆凉冰 Beast Tribe armies, Motorcycle Tribe armies, Luan-class flying aircraft carriers, Godzilla, Ghidorah, Jaegers, Space Marines, the Thousand Sons, Black Templars, Transformers, Imperial-class Star Destroyers, Glory of the Stars Queen-class battleships, Custodes, Sisters of Silence, Grey Knights, Cosmic Star Gods, dimensional weapons, intelligent insectoids, Shura Armor... Resident Evil, Return to Blue Star, Awakening of the Outsiders, 2012, Starship Troopers, Pacific Rim, Avatar, Alita: Battle Ang 3.4kReads9.1Score216Shelves
- 66 The Enlightenment Human Community 启明人类共同体 (The rating just came in and will keep rising, so feel free to give it a try. People keep saying there’s no room for sci-fi here, that everyone only likes cultivation and fantasy, and that The Three-Body Problem is the only one that can compete. Let’s prove them wrong!) Abducted by aliens? Turns out that’s a good thing: we’re the pandas of the universe. They won’t let us visit home? There’s always a way around every obstacle! They lock us in cages and cut us off? Then we’ll just have to secretly 1.2kReads8.3Score140Shelves
- 67 They Told You to Be a Wallfacer, So Why Did You Join the Trisolarans? 让你当面壁者：你反手投靠三体？ [You can enjoy this even if you’re unfamiliar with the world of The Three-Body Problem] [Lighthearted + a little System + not brainless] Lin Xuan transmigrates into the world of The Three-Body Problem and unexpectedly becomes the fifth Wallfacer after Luo Ji. The problem is, he gets saddled with an absurdly terrible System that requires him to collect shock points from other people in exchange for all kinds of items. Lin Xuan quickly thinks of the fastest way to gather shock points. He decides t 29.4kReads9.4Score3kShelves
- 68 Reborn as a Satellite 重生成为卫星 Five hundred years after the disaster, Liu Yi was reborn as an artificial satellite. By then, the surface had become a wasteland. Mutated monsters roamed everywhere, and humanity, its civilization in decline, could only huddle behind narrow city walls. Liu Yi had no cheat powers. On the contrary, he had to be someone else's cheat. 3.2kReads9.1Score320Shelves
- 69 Claim a Planet and Become Its Ruler 占个星球当球主 [Cosmic Exploration + Interstellar Warfare + Anything Goes + Later Exploration and Wars Beyond the Galaxy] When he woke up, Li Meng discovered that he had become an intelligent AI. Humanity had risen to power in this era, becoming the overlord of the Milky Way. With no other choice, Li Meng could only explore the galaxy cautiously and keep a low profile. 458Reads8.4Score156Shelves
- 70 I Became the Universe's Arms Dealer 我成了宇宙军火商 The protagonist unexpectedly acquires black technology from the universe. Starting out by selling small arms and eventually moving on to selling space battleships, he leads humanity into the great age of space exploration, trades with various races, and builds the largest space station in the universe. 4kReads8.8Score269Shelves
- 71 Selecting Humanity 筛选人类 Hardcore sci-fi, rated 9+ [Hardcore sci-fi, future technology, genetic warfare, high-IQ strategies, a fresh premise, tech-focused, not a power fantasy] This is a novel that will leave you feeling a chill run down your spine. It depicts a form of warfare most people have never considered: genetic agricultural warfare. Drawing on rigorous agricultural science, it builds an apocalyptic scenario that feels chillingly real. The enemy’s weapon might be nothing more than an ordinary weed growing by a f 10.4kReads8.2Score1.4kShelves
- 72 Our Glorious China Strides Across the Multiverse 我泱泱华夏纵横多元宇宙 Fang Jing somehow came into possession of a magical machine that could let him transmigrate into all kinds of science-fiction films and TV shows! In response to the United States' suppression, he starts with The Wandering Earth, developing exoskeletons, crewed lunar missions, a moon base, and a space elevator... China rises all the way from The Wandering Earth to The Three-Body Problem, conquering the multiverse until it eventually ascends into an eternal multiverse civilization! 60.3kReads9.1Score3.5kShelves
- 73 Livestream: Proving the Existence of an Infinite Multiverse from the Start 直播：开局证明无限多元宇宙 [Livestreaming: I’m leading the evolution of civilization] After transmigrating, Jiang Zhe becomes the host of a science education program. He gets bound to a System. To his surprise, he discovers that all he has to do is explain science to earn an endless stream of rewards. Using scientific theories from his previous life, he proves from the start that the world is fake and that infinitely many multiverses exist. “...” “Nuwa mended the sky by repairing the moon and the earth.” “Ancient civiliza 11.2kReads8.7Score1.2kShelves
- 74 Stargate: A New World 星际之门：新世界 Qin Hantang accidentally transmigrated to a parallel world strikingly similar to the setting of the TV series Stargate. With his unreliable, hit-or-miss memories of the plot, he opened the door to a new world. 1.5kReads8.7Score129Shelves
- 75 Interstellar Longevity: Live Long Enough to Rule the Universe 星际长生：活得够久就能称霸宇宙 [Soft Sci-Fi + AI as the System + Ensemble Cast + Creator + Farming + Vast Worldbuilding + Civilization Development + Interstellar War + Physical Ascension + Hegemony] Earth is destroyed by an unknown ray. Yan Xia, the only human survivor, embarks on a journey through the cosmos alongside Ella, the AI aboard his rocket. He builds interstellar warships measuring ten thousand, a hundred thousand, and even a million meters; colossal interstellar cities spanning hundreds of billions of kilometers; a 88.7kReads8.9Score14.4kShelves
- 76 Technology Blockade? I'll Build a Sci-Fi Heavenly Realm in Nine Levels 技术封锁？我反手打造科幻九重天 [Black tech + bandits + conquest + interstellar + war + arms dealing + black market] Back then, the Eagle Sauce had its hands in its pockets, convinced it had no rivals, with its arms trade spanning the globe. Back then, the Dragon Nation was under a technological blockade, its science and technology stuck at a bottleneck. Back then, advanced alien civilizations looked down on Blue Star, not taking it seriously at all. Then one day, Lin Feng, a new recruit at the Strategic Deception Bureau, show 17.4kReads9.1Score1.4kShelves
- 77 Train Survival Begins as My Home Planet Explodes 从母星爆炸开始列车求生 [Supernatural evolution] [Civilization collection] [Theism] Their home planet explodes, and humanity escapes into the depths of space aboard interstellar trains. Chen An becomes a train conductor, carrying passengers through the struggle for survival among the stars and creating a unique civilization of his own: the Fuyao Civilization. Under his direction, the passengers sweep across the stars like locusts. They develop technology, plunder species, destroy empires, and trample civilizations. Cou 36.2kReads8.9Score3kShelves
- 78 90-Day Countdown: China Enters First-Level Combat Readiness 倒计时90天：华夏进入一级战备 #Ensemble Cast #Reborn in the Apocalypse #Nationwide Mobilization #Hardcore Military Industry #Everyone Transmigrates #Rise of a Great Power "If the apocalypse were imminent, Dongguo would deliver the most stirring answer!" At a single order from the nation, Huaxia immediately activated its highest-level state of combat readiness! We would not sit back and wait for the gods to save us, nor pin our hopes on aid from other countries. Billions of people united as one, building a nationwide line of 68.3kReads9.2Score5kShelves
- 79 Earth's Space Force 地球天军 Earth’s military forces wipe out the Zerg beyond the Milky Way and establish a new calendar. As technology advances and the population booms, major corporate conglomerates aggressively expand their off-world businesses, extracting resources from planets across the galaxy. Humanity officially enters a great new era of interstellar civilization. But in the end, they open Pandora’s box... The Zerg return! Star beasts descend! Tian Xiao dies on the battlefield, then is reborn three years in the past 24.7kReads9.3Score2kShelves
- 80 Cross-Time Trading: I Trade a Bottle of Water for Nuclear Fusion 超时空交易：我一瓶水换核聚变 [Cross-Time Trading + Tycoon + Technology + Incredibly Satisfying] "The Super-Time Trading Platform is recruiting Blue Star agents. Base salary starts at 100,000." Su Yu had just lost his job when he happened upon this recruitment ad. He clicked on it just for a laugh. Then he became a Blue Star agent for the Super-Time Trading Platform, able to trade goods with people across different eras and worlds. A ton of rice could get him 50 kilograms of gold from a trading partner in a wasteland world? 29.2kReads8.7Score2.5kShelves
- 81 Starting Out as a Space Junk Scavenger 从太空垃圾佬开始 [Space Opera] [Exploration and Frontier Development] [Interstellar Trade] [Dreadnoughts and Big Guns] [Interstellar Colonization] A modern man transmigrates to the interstellar age, but can't handle future technology? No problem, Emperor Gaozu of Han already showed us the way. I'll start my own business, offering benefits with one hand and dangling promises with the other. I don't need to master everything; the talented people will take care of it for me. From the start, my unreliable parents di 66.3kReads9.4Score6.6kShelves
- 82 The Titan Chronicles: The Stardust War 泰坦战记：星尘之战 Reni, a Martian, meets Amanda, the queen of motorbikes, at the French military academy of Saint-Cyr. Together, they take part in the colonization of the stars and a mission to combat space pirates. But then mysterious time hunters launch a killing spree. 19Reads—Score—Shelves
- 83 Between Two Worlds, with an Armored Tide at My Back 穿梭两界，我的身后是钢铁洪流 [Travel Between Two Worlds] + [Calling in the Parents] + [Steel Torrent] + [Mechanical Fantasy] + [Across the Stars] + [Smart Characters] Ultimate Summoning Technique: Motherland, I need you! Transmigration means hacking through thorns and blazing a trail, struggling through hardships, facing deadly battles and danger at every turn. After fighting tooth and nail in another world to carve out a tiny territory, the enemy is about to reach his gates. The foolish nobles have abandoned my country. Th 47kReads9.3Score3.3kShelves
- 84 Greetings from Planet E 来自e星的问候 Whenever I look up at the sky, the dark insectoid mothership looms across the horizon. Greetings from Planet E is a grand extraterrestrial adventure starring Yang Mo. As he builds a business and uncovers a rebellion plot among Planet E's factions, Yang Mo uses his wits to foil the conspirators and the insectoid race, winning the love of the Swan Princess and the Dragonfish Princess. The Solar Chariot tells the story of Yang Mo, the son of Yang Ruo, who arrives on Planet E a thousand years later 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 85 EN I'm a Type II Civilization with a Dimensionality Reduction Strike, Isn't That Perfectly Reasonable? 我一个二级文明有二向箔很合理吧 [Technology + Disaster + Interstellar + Tech Tree] In the year 2050 AD, the Sun is affected by an unknown force, and a helium flash is imminent! Is Earth on the brink of destruction? No matter. I’ll handle it! Is the Trisolaris system’s Proxima Centauri civilization about to invade? No matter. I’ll handle it! Are advanced civilizations locked in conflict across the dark universe? No matter. I’ll handle it! … Starting with controlled nuclear fusion, the protagonist, Lü Yongchang, ushers humanity 90.1kReads9.6Score7.9kShelves
- 86 Fairyland in the Purple Bamboo Grove 紫竹林的仙境 A Fairyland in the Purple Bamboo Grove 35Reads—Score—Shelves
- 87 The Moon Palace Amid a Sea of Flowers 花海月宫 The Moon Palace Amid a Sea of Flowers 40Reads—Score—Shelves
- 88 The Mars Era: Road to Venus 火星纪元：金星之路 An ancient alien spacecraft is discovered in a crater on Venus. The mysterious X Organization plots to seize the planet, while Factory 18 wants to use Venus as a dumping ground for waste. Yet atop the clouds of Venus stands an airship academy called Cloudtop Academy, a hallowed school dreamed of by students across the solar system. At last, traveling from Mars to Venus, they witness the planet's land and oceans. 62Reads—Score—Shelves
- 89 Across the Ocean 大洋彼岸 Across the Ocean 68Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 EN My Arrival in the Matrix Universe 我降临在矩阵宇宙 A young man arrives in this Matrix Universe, carrying a lantern. Inside it are his twelve manifested personalities. They weep, and they shine. He sets the lantern on the ground, lighting a small space around him. Before him, the continent falls, flames soar into the sky, and sixty million people plunge into the abyss. I am both the destroyer of this universe and its savior. 23.9kReads9.6Score2.8kShelves
- 91 EN I Exchange Black Technology by Crushing the School Bully 我靠打爆学霸兑换黑科技 [Academic Prodigy + Black Technology + Technology to Strengthen the Nation + War and Terror Bureau] High school student Song He gets the Academic Grudge System. As long as he can make top students lose their composure, he can exchange their resentment for all kinds of black technology. So Song He keeps driving the top students over the edge: “You snatch first place in the grade, and every other top student drops in the rankings. Resentment +10,000!” “You receive a special research allowance for 54.8kReads9.3Score6.2kShelves
