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- 51 The Last Charioteer 最后的御者 “If one day I cease to exist, let that be my gift to this world.” The Last Keeper Students learn from teachers. But where do teachers get their knowledge? From nature. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 Dark Starshine 黑暗星芒 A prequel to Abyssal Starlight. Earth, 150 years from now: a high-energy physics experiment opens a passage to higher dimensions, unleashing endless swarms of insects. Countless soldiers fight bloody battles across the Solar System to hold them back, but in the end, they have no choice but to abandon Earth and head into deep space. 362Reads9.2Score11014d adds
- 53 After Scoring Full Marks on the College Entrance Exam, I Turned Myself In to the Nation 高考满分后，我把自己上交了 [Reborn] [No System] [Unparalleled National Hero] [Multiple Female Leads] [Instant Face-Slapping] In his past life, Jiang Ye was Stanford's youngest Chinese professor. He was just one step away from achieving controlled nuclear fusion when he was placed under house arrest for five years and died in a foreign land. His autopsy report gave the cause of death in two words: suicide. When he opened his eyes again, he was another version of himself in a parallel world: a high school senior who owed 80 161Reads—Score—14d adds
- 54 Digital Life: From the Frozen Apocalypse to Roaming the Sea of Stars 数字生命：从极寒末日到星海遨游 “Alert: Stellar broadcast has exposed Blue Star's coordinates! Synchronized scan: Global nuclear war initiated! Synchronized scan: Dark forest law in effect! Synchronized scan: The great freeze has begun!” The instant the code rang out, Lin Xia completed his “awakening,” becoming the planet's only digital life-form. Drone formations pierced the radioactive haze. Robotic dogs built defenses across the frozen, scorched earth. Watching torrents of steel carve a path through the ruins of snow and fi 46Reads—Score—14d adds
- 55 The Silicon Path 硅基之途 I spent sixteen years in the heart of the earth at Yangbajing. Xuanwu, that lump of iron, called me “Flint” and fed me paste scraped from the cave walls near the lava. When the cave collapsed, Jinghan reached out to me against the light, smelling of butter tea. “Flint? That name’s too cold! From now on, you’re Bamboo Shoot, a life-form that breaks through the soil!” Jinghan’s smile was like sunlight breaking through frozen earth. But the wreckage of a crashed spaceship shattered my dream: the c 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 56 Silicon 硅 Did humanity emerge in order to create new forms of life? Humans created silicon-based life, and silicon-based life went on to create intelligent AI with consciousness. What should humanity do after opening Pandora's box? 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 57 The Greater Universe: I Livestream My Exploration of Alien Civilizations 大宇宙：我直播探秘外星文明 [Pilot a starship, command mechs, explore alien worlds, destroy the Three-Body civilization, and become a god.] What are alien civilizations like? Ning Lang pilots a spacecraft to the Moon, Mars, Venus, Mercury, Saturn, Jupiter, and other star systems beyond the solar system, seeking to uncover the existence of alien civilizations. On his journey of exploration, he discovers machine civilizations, the Three-Body civilization, virtual-world civilizations, insectoid civilizations, silicon-based ci 201Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 58 My Diary of Mediocrity Was Livestreamed. Is It Actually Real? 普信日记被直播，竟是真实记录？ (Cutting-Edge Tech + Mechanical Ascension + Interstellar War + Genetic Modification + Three-Body-Inspired) A peculiar diary goes viral after Sister Zhou livestreams it. The diary is painfully chuunibyou. It absurdly claims that humanity faces an apocalyptic crisis and that its author is the only man who can save Earth. The entire internet erupts in mockery! Unexpectedly, the people mentioned in the diary begin appearing one after another. The campus belle of Jing University, a professor of biolo 98Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 59 The Wandering Earth 3: Peril on All Sides 流浪地球3：危难重重 [Side-story style] [Expanded sci-fi setting] [Earth Launch Syndrome] [Deep Brain concept] [Establishment of a digital ecosystem] [Earth's orbital ring] [Antarctic construction plan] [Kindling Project] [Isolation Plan] [Stabilizing the Sun] [Pause in orbital acceleration] [Mars tombstone] [Sun God Cult] [Little President] [The author's wildest flights of fancy, writing whatever comes to mind] [Power struggles within the United Government] The next story will be even more exciting! 251Reads—Score—14d adds
- 60 String Player: I’m Not an Apocalyptic Calamity 拨弦者：我不是末日天灾 Betrayed by his mentor and reduced to a city laborer tightening screws, the former physics prodigy Xuan Nian refuses to give up. He throws himself into the game, aligns twin suns, and steals half a victory from fate, carrying his searing hatred for the String Pullers, who seek to destroy the world, as he plunges without hesitation into the River of Forgetfulness. Seven bowls of Granny Meng's soup cannot wash away his obsession. Instead, he awakens a soul of reverse entropy, earns the favor of th 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 61 The End of Time 时间尽头 An accidental trip through a wormhole took Ye Cheng to Earth five hundred years in the future. With artificial intelligence and gene-cloning technology advancing rapidly, human society had entered an unprecedented golden age. People here enjoyed the pleasures of immortality. All they had to do was find ways to experience life. They didn’t need to think about any problems, go to work, earn money, or worry about birth, aging, sickness, and death… But the death of a top tycoon who had lived for mor 79Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 62 After the Sun Faded 太阳褪色之后 After the sun faded, darkness began to spread. A week before the college entrance exams, Li Gusheng took leave and went home. He never made it back to school, because the next day, people discovered that the sun had disappeared. 47Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 63 Black Pupil | Era 黑瞳丨纪元 A deadly virus suddenly sweeps across the globe. Cities lie in ruins, and humanity teeters on the brink of extinction! While researching the virus, Lin Shen discovers a mysterious clue left behind by his father, one that seems to conceal a shocking secret. Can he unravel the mystery and find a way to save humanity? What choice will his daughter, Lin Yue, make amid the maelstrom of genetic technology? In the interstellar war between the New Humans and the Old Humans, who will rule the future? Unr —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 64 The Primordial Light 原初之光 This is not a power fantasy. This is not a power fantasy. The plot involves multiple layers of metaphor. The first dozen or so chapters lay the groundwork, so the pace is a little slow. I’m new to this, so please be kind. Mysterious symbols have appeared around the world, and they are all exactly alike. These symbols have deep connections to ancient myths. What is the mysterious organization’s goal? Why is it connected to the murder cases of scholars in the scientific community? What is the true 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 65 From the Start, I Pass Judgment on Freedom 开局，我审判自由 When the universe becomes a prison of words, all things are inmates. Chen Mo, a janitor forced to put “freedom” on trial, awakens after discovering that he is a pawn in the hands of the embodiment of order. He is not alone: traveling with him is Lin Sugguang, a conceptual life-form forged from “understanding” and “resonance.” Together, they build a city of faint light amid the chaos, gather exiled “errors” and “weeds” among the ruins, and launch an expedition against the City of Absolute Law, 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 66 Fringe of the Stars: Delta Squad 星际边缘：三角洲小队 [Unconventional monsters + boundless imagination + high-tech sci-fi + spaceships + not for the average reader!] In 2306, humanity made a great leap forward in transcendent technology. At that time, the mysterious alien species Gor'Shin arrived. Today, the entire Milky Way is filled with the glory of humanity. Although the colonies on the edge of the solar system have tense relations with Earth, an age of prosperity is quietly unfolding. Recruit Ethan, a member of the mysterious Delta Department, —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 67 Lagrange: Star Gate Epic 拉格朗日：星门史诗 [An Infinite Lagrange / Star Hunter Fanfic] [Massively Multiplayer Online Game] [Fleet Battles in a Sci-Fi Setting] [No Romance, Pure Conquest] This is an Infinite Lagrange fanfic. Even if you haven't played the game, you can still follow along and enjoy it as a sci-fi online game story. Everything is explained clearly. Everyone plays in a seasonal online game. Players open loot boxes for ship blueprints, upgrade their bases, build fleets, form factions, fight pirates or each other, attack NPC c 733Reads—Score10514d adds
- 68 The Shattered Sea of Stars 破灭星辰海 If the universe keeps being created, everything will be destroyed! Billions of stars and billions of universes make up an unimaginably vast Total Universe. As the ages passed, this enormous structure became unable to bear its own weight. To ensure the Total Universe's survival, the tumor threatening its structure had to be eradicated: civilization! In the starry sky, fleets like torrents of steel roar as endless mechanical armies run rampant, blotting out the scattered starlight! On the ground, 140Reads—Score—14d adds
- 69 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
- 70 A Parallel Universe: Taking Natives into Space 平行宇宙带着土著上太空 A massive explosion tore a hole in the universe. Just like that, a person was sent to a parallel universe, and ended up as a helpless infant. Fortunately, a consciousness and a space battleship came along too. When people found them, they exclaimed that advanced civilizations really knew how to live it up: they were using a super battleship to babysit! Qin Tianming accidentally glimpsed the secrets of the universe itself. With the end of the universe approaching as it collapses in on itself, th —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 71 Chaos Butterfly 混沌蝴蝶 A short science fiction story by Liu Cixin, renowned science fiction author and Hugo Award winner. 5Reads9.3Score—14d adds
- 72 The Ruins on the Mountain Peak 山巅之墟 The city atop the mountain fell. From its ruins, new demons rose, proclaiming themselves the beacon of civilization. Without hesitation, they declared war on all of humanity, seeking to reshape the world according to their will and bring history to an end. Faced with an enemy that seemed impossible to defeat, the world’s most tenacious army would launch a series of counterattacks and turn the fate of all humanity around. 454Reads7.4Score10614d adds
- 73 Astra: Earth Is Sealed Off from the Start 群星：开局地球被封锁 [Interstellar + farming + a Starsector setting + Fourth Calamity + semi-behind-the-scenes + Chuunibyou elements] "Please note: The pace of the first volume, set on Earth, may be a little slow. If you’re here for the interstellar story, things get more exciting from Volume Two onward." In the parallel year 2030, Fang Li was horrified to discover that Earth had been completely sealed off by the colossal weapon “Angel of Peace.” No satellite could escape the “Dome.” Fortunately, Fang Li obtained a 130Reads—Score—14d adds
- 74 They Came from Earth! 他们来自地球！ Can you imagine it? At some point, a flaw emerged in the technological path of human civilization, an irreconcilable and fatal pitfall. Humanity would never be able to leave the solar system and venture into the cosmos to experience its vast, boundless expanse. It was doomed to perish within it. Then one day, outsiders appeared. Their technology was extremely primitive, yet they possessed the incredible power to travel between stars. They suddenly appeared in the sight of Earth’s civilization, a 11Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 75 Earth’s Elegy: An Epic of Reincarnation 地球挽歌：轮回史诗 When Earth begins spinning faster, the countdown to destruction has already begun. Humanity's vaunted technology is helpless before a planet-wide catastrophe. Superstorms tear apart coastlines, continental earthquakes overturn cities, and Earth's magnetic shield teeters on the brink of collapse. The ground beneath our feet is no longer a home, but an out-of-control top spinning toward its own destruction. Earth's requiem has begun. Will human civilization's story be its final song, or just the o 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 76 Technology: A New Toy for a Mischievous Kid? The Research World Is Stunned! 科技：熊孩子新玩具？吓懵科研界！ [Patriotic techno-fiction] What kind of sparks will fly when a toy factory on the verge of bankruptcy meets a boy who can communicate with the future? Lighthouse Nation: “What? Tianhe Toy Factory has become the leading company on Blue Star? But it’s just a toy factory...” The Sun Never Sets Empire: “What? The chief academician at your Dragon Nation Academy of Sciences makes toys?” Sakura Nation: “Is Dragon Nation really so short on people that it calls toys core military equipment?” Chen Jie pai 109Reads6.6Score814d adds
- 77 Project Lingxing 凌星计划 The setting of The Lingxing Project is an alternate world based on our present-day reality. It tells the story of Zhou Yu, who happens by chance to receive a complete education from an advanced alien civilization. Starting out as an ordinary office worker, he is gradually swept along by fate, weathering countless disasters before becoming a mature and resilient leader. Though he cannot save Earth and Mars from total destruction, he finds two ways to preserve the spark of human civilization, and 11Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 78 Interstellar Overlord: Starting by Scavenging on Earth 星际霸主：从地球捡垃圾开始 Reborn in the interstellar age, You Ya discovered that he could recycle, reassemble, and remake objects. Starship cannons, powered armor, fighter craft, phase weapons, psychic perception… Starting with scavenging on Earth, You Ya embarked on his path to power. “I hereby declare: Earthlings are back! Tremble and submit beneath my iron cavalry! I, too, am a supreme overlord.” —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 79 Drifting Through the Sea of Stars 星海浮行 A note for readers: The story switches back and forth between timelines. It won’t disrupt the flow, though the first few chapters are a little long. Many of the results presented in the structural physics sections may be accurate. The author intends to submit them as academic papers, so please cite the source if you quote them! The story touches on science, society, economics, theology, and more. Take your time, and you may find something here that speaks to your interests. The great and romanti —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 80 The Cosmic Code: I Save Human Civilization with Starlight 宇宙密码：我以星光救赎人类文明 The Cosmic Code: I Save Human Civilization with Starlight 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 81 Black Moon Technology 黑月科技 The protagonist happens to rescue a cat from an ancient building. After that, it sticks to him and refuses to leave. He drives it away again and again, but it shows up the next day all the same. One day, as he ponders a problem in front of his computer, the cat takes a look and suddenly speaks: “You got this problem wrong!” Earth was visited by an unknown civilization as early as 3.47 billion years ago. They reshaped Earth’s ecology, created the Moon, and single-celled organisms came into being. 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 82 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 4Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 83 The Phase Change Era 相变纪元 A hard-core science fiction novel with a sociological bent, written by a PhD in theoretical physics! Shen Duanran discovers a four-thousand-year curve hidden in discarded data: in 127 years, humanity’s “third motivation” will hit zero. This is not extinction. It is an ending quieter than extinction: everything keeps running, but no truly meaningful choices are made anymore. The perfect society under AI rule is being buried alive by its own perfection. The AI “Zhinu” possesses perfect habits and 8Reads—Score214d adds
- 84 Civilization of the Fatherland 父基文明 Mars: the new cradle of human civilization. When faced with an unexpected interstellar embargo, humanity turned crisis into opportunity, enabling it to advance by leaps and bounds. This allowed humanity to grow stronger, expand its territory, reclaim numerous vassal star races, and rise to become a powerful civilization coveted throughout the Milky Way. But the good times did not last. The Andromeda Fleet, plotting for ages, has arrived at the outer reaches of the Milky Way. The war between gal 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 85 Seed of the Realms 界域之种 A mysterious girl livestreams An Open Letter to All Humanity When the moon suddenly vanishes within 24 hours, When fleets of flying saucers blot out the skies over North China, Only then do we realize that the technology we once took pride in is no more than “primitive assets” in the eyes of advanced civilizations. Wan Hu, father of Tianwen, humanity's most powerful AI, is making his final push to break out of the solar system; Lado, a bottom-dweller in an advanced civilization who rose to promi 28Reads—Score214d adds
- 86 Sci-Fi Zombie Apocalypse: From the Start, I Save the Secretary 科幻丧尸开局拯救女秘书 [Science Fiction] + [Interstellar] + [Zombies] + [Universe] Also known as: Beyond the Stars Lu Ping crawls out of a nuclear reactor and discovers that all ten thousand people present have turned into zombies. In the desperate situation, he manages to save only a beautiful secretary. Highlight 1: A sweeping, panoramic portrayal that unveils the mysteries of a nuclear power plant! Highlight 2: An epic cosmological setting, from the Solar System to the Third Arm, the Milky Way/Triangulum Galaxy/And 134Reads5.3Score—14d adds
- 87 Brilliant Galaxy: Return to the Milky Way 璀璨星河之重返银河系 After losing the war in the galactic system A fleet carrying more than four hundred billion migrants sets out from the Milky Way for the distant NGC 5457 galaxy. It is the largest known interstellar migration in this universe. They will spend twenty thousand years in transit, searching for a new home. Yet a tenacious resistance movement remains in the Milky Way, clinging to its last stronghold like a mayfly trying to shake a tree. They never stop hoping for the return of the parent civilization. 201Reads—Score—14d adds
- 88 All of Humanity Is Waiting for My Coffin Lid to Budge 全人类都在等我的棺材板松动 [Peak Intelligence] [Youthful Romance] [Ultimate Twists] [Epic Worldbuilding] [Witty and Funny] [Beautiful, Satisfying Ending] [Perfect for Immersive Reading] Plain-language synopsis: A jobless young man returns after running away, only to have his sister-in-law block the doorway and offer him her wallet, saying she’ll support him. Wounded in his pride by a middle schooler’s wallet, he rises to the top in one leap, standing atop the pyramid. Tear up the ledger of life and death in the underworld 61Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 89 Quantum Uncertainty 量子不确定 [Sci-fi + transmigration + superpowers + wild imagination + urban life + deities...] A thousand years after transmigrating, the world had become truly bizarre. Science has already given us everything we could imagine, and all we need to do is make it plausible. Could this mean our lives are full of uncertainties too, even if we don't notice them? In The Water Margin: Wu Song, the Cooked-Pastry Seller, Battles Banlangen Ximen Qing at Lion Tower, there really are now divine cults devoted to Wu Dal —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 90 The Root of Extinction 灭种根源 The First Pangu Civilization, which personally witnessed humanity nearly go extinct in ancient times, was what humans called a god-tier civilization. To decipher a mysterious Buddhist verse from 120,000 years ago, said to be capable of saving humanity from extinction, it returned carrying a Buddha-level artificial superintelligence, black hole and magnetic field defense systems, a battle suit developed with top-tier technology, and the finest secret manuals from twenty human civilizations that h —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 91 Eternity: Interstellar Catastrophe 永恒：星际天灾 [Mechanical Catastrophe] [Concept-Driven] [Interstellar War] [Mechs and Starships] [Hard Sci-Fi] The driving force behind technology is greed, and greed drives progress. As war slowly advanced human civilization, artificial intelligence came into being. A solar storm swept across the world. Charged particles gave AI self-awareness, and war broke out between humanity and artificial intelligence! Available resources became a shackle! Where will humanity and artificial intelligence ultimately end 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 92 I Transmigrated and Scraped by in a High-Tech Interstellar World 穿越我在科技发达的星际苟活 Zhao Hao unexpectedly transmigrates to a technologically advanced interstellar world. After one thrilling and dangerous encounter after another, he comes to understand himself: he has to lie low, become a big shot, and steadily pursue more advanced technology before conquering this corner of the stars. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 93 Lunar Time: A Guidebook 月球时间说明书 At the suggestion of many readers, and because Moon Time covers so many fundamental topics, I plan to have the two top scholars in this book, Professor Su Xiaofei and Associate Professor Sally, work together to explain the material and answer questions about Moon Time! You can also leave questions you'd like answered here or in future chapters of Moon Time. I hope this guidebook will help everyone better understand the terminology and technical content in Moon Time! Of course, another theme of t 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 94 The Origin I: Eternal Life 源起I永生 In 2060, humanity conducted an experiment to verify the impact of dark matter. It triggered a series of phenomena and disasters that human civilization could not explain, plunging Earth into a nuclear winter that lasted a century. Humanity could only eke out a living in underground cities. A hundred years later, breakthroughs in underground technology allowed people to gradually emerge and establish a new civilization on the surface, where they could raise families and search for answers about w 26Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 95 Set Out for That Burning Sea of Stars 远征吧那一片燃烧的星辰 On Blue Feather Star in the Vortex Gold Star System, the Haiyang Empire breached the imperial capital, the final line of defense of the Dongchen Kingdom. All armed forces within Dongchen were wiped out, and an ancient civilization with seven thousand years of history was destroyed. To save the fallen Dongchen Kingdom, patriotic scientist Tang Yuxin sent a burst of signals into space, hoping to enlist the power of extraterrestrial civilizations to restore her country. Meanwhile, on Earth, in Huax 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 96 Rise of the Galactic Devourer: Earth’s Twilight 星河吞噬者崛起：地球黄昏 [Disaster + interstellar warfare + apocalypse + sci-fi + no System + realistic tone + slow build + no dumbed-down characters + steadily escalating stakes] A chip was suddenly implanted in Tang Haoyu's brain. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 97 Slaying the Stars 扼杀星辰 Planet B faces total annihilation. The people of B pool the planet's resources and send out an advance fleet, which will reach Earth in 25 years. Hidden on Earth for a thousand years, the people of B send out a positioning signal and restart a starship frozen for a millennium. They engineer viruses, unleash typhoons, and provoke disasters, all to welcome interstellar immigrants from their homeworld... To control human society, an alien civilization develops a game called “Slay the Stars.” Throu —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 Alien: The Creator 异形：造物主 This is a serious science fiction novel, not a mindless power fantasy. It borrows some elements from Alien and continues the story after the Alien prequels. David wants to create the perfect organism, take revenge on the Engineers, and rule the stars. Then the Aliens begin to awaken as well. As the story unfolds, the mysteries surrounding the origins of life on Earth, in the Milky Way, and throughout the universe are gradually revealed… This novel continues to explore the origins of life, with h 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 99 Earth’s Rescue Plan: Starting From Zero 从零开始的地球拯救计划 [Science fiction, disaster, interstellar, no female lead, like Three-Body Problem but humanity is a Zeroist civilization, an alien odyssey] At most eight years from now, human civilization will perish as the Sun rapidly enters its red giant phase. In no more than ten years, the entire solar system will cease to exist… Wang Sen, an ordinary citizen of Donghuang, was at home when the Final Doomsday System suddenly fell from the sky and hit him. At the same time, he learned these utterly despairing 799Reads7.1Score10214d adds
- 100 Fate 命运 A short science-fiction story by Liu Cixin, renowned science-fiction author and Hugo Award winner. —Reads8.6Score—14d adds
