Novels like The Galactic Junkman
Books Chinese readers most often put in the same booklists as The Galactic Junkman, best match first.
- 101 Starbound Journey: Blue Embers 星道星途：余烬落蓝 The sea of stars is vast, and civilizations are but specks of dust. The third-level civilization of the Huo Qiong Star System teeters on the brink of collapse beneath the iron hooves of unknown invaders. The mothership Revenge, carrying the last survivors of every race and the embers of their civilizations, crossed billions of light-years before finally landing on Earth. They have witnessed the rise and fall of civilizations, and lived through joy and sorrow, life and death. When the embers fina 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 102 You’re a Coast Guard Officer, So Why Are You Enforcing the Law Worldwide with Railguns? 你一海警，用电磁炮执法全球？ Bi Tian, a Coast Guard logistics worker, is ordered to repair a decommissioned warship. By chance, he binds himself to the Mad Technology System. As long as he can think big, he can build any kind of technology. Nuclear power, intelligent drone swarms, all-purpose medical pods: he can make them all. The Xia Kingdom military: “Bi Tian, we’ve decided to put you in charge of building our very own aircraft carrier!” Bi Tian: “I refuse!” The Xia Kingdom military: “Why?” Bi Tian: “If we’re building on 55Reads6.8Score1114d adds
- 103 From the Start, I Had a Junkyard, and I Built an Interstellar Fleet 开局一座废品站，我造出星际舰队 At the Starsea Command Academy, Lu Feng scored 13 points on his mock exam, dead last. Everyone said he was a nepotism hire, a good-for-nothing who didn't deserve to pilot a starship. Then, one night, the [Starship Construction System] activated. Starting with a tiny, forty-meter exploration ship, Lu Feng scavenged scrap metal for resources in a junkyard, fought pirates for ore in an asteroid belt, and thrashed the top student in a simulated battle. Other people piloted starships through skil 3.7kReads7.0Score38414d adds
- 104 The Mechanic in the Immortal Realm 机械师在仙界 “This is my battle armor. Its shell is covered in bionic plating, its surface is coated with an iridescent optical camouflage finish, and the reactor in its abdomen provides virtually limitless power. It has an adaptive weapons array on its back and can be controlled remotely from an enormous distance...” “Wow! That’s so cool. It’s the coolest puppet I’ve ever seen, without a doubt.” “So many Xuanlin armor scales. How extravagant!” “Fellow Daoists, be careful. This puppet comes with an illusion 6Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 105 Surviving in the Universe: I Can Enhance Creations Tenfold 宇宙求生：我能十倍强化造物 All of Earth's humans are transported into space to face a survival trial. Everyone starts with a survival base. The protagonist gains a creation skill that makes everything ten times stronger. Get ahead once, and you'll stay ahead at every turn. While everyone else is desperately trying to kill a single monster, Yang Zhen has already conquered a monster nest. While everyone else is desperately trying to build a spaceship, Yang Zhen has already crossed the stars and arrived outside your planet. 7Reads6.9Score—14d adds
- 106 Pride of the Cosmic Sky 宇空天骄 Luo Xiaoshuo’s blood seemed to boil and burn. His breathing grew ragged, each breath taking every ounce of strength he had, his chest expanding and contracting violently in time with his gasps. The enemy mech drew closer and closer. He began regulating his breathing as well, and the hand gripping the grenade steadied. When he judged that the enemy mech was fifty-five meters away, he clenched his teeth. He couldn’t wait any longer. Whether he lived or died would be decided in this instant. From P 16Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 107 A Nationwide Shelter System: I Can Summon Characters from Other Dimensions 全民避难所，我能召唤次元角色 Lin Li had just transmigrated from Earth to Blue Star when he was swept up in a mass transmigration event and taken to an apocalyptic world. Everyone got their own underground shelter. Other shelter chiefs asked, “Why is your shelter different from ours? What exactly is your talent!?” Lin Li gained the talent to enhance and mutate things, receiving one enhancement point every day. On the first day, he enhanced the broadcasting room. While everyone else summoned survivors, Lin Li summoned charact 374Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 108 Starsea Dreadnoughts: A Clash of the Myriad Races 星海巨舰之万族争锋 [Tags: Interstellar War + Farming + Fleet Building + Civilizational War + Light System Elements + Battleships and Big Guns] After transmigrating to the interstellar age, while everyone else is still miserably mining ore, Wang Dao binds himself to a divine civilization legacy! [The Empire's central AI, Tianshu, is now online!] [Unique god-tier constitution awakened: Child of the Stars!] [T5 dark matter energy array unlocked! Lost Empire barracks unlocked!] What? It takes the Federation three yea 3.2kReads6.3Score29014d adds
- 109 Reborn as a Star 重生成星 After an accident, Yang Yu opens his eyes again and discovers that he has become an asteroid in the universe. Watch as he changes his fate and tries to understand what is really going on. 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 110 Interstellar Arms Dealer: Starting with a Shipyard 星际军火商：开局一座造船厂 Li Meng, whose psionic experiment failed, awakens in the Age of Declining Magic thirty thousand years later. He discovers that the Milky Way he once knew has changed a little. People in this era call the time he lived in the Golden Age. Humanity, once the ruler of the Milky Way, has fallen into decline and can only cling to survival in one corner of the galaxy. Much technology has been lost, internal conflicts rage on, feudalism is rampant, and human civilization has fallen into ruin. Faced with 1.6kReads6.7Score11914d adds
- 111 Lagrange: I Can Choose My Own Ship Blueprints 拉格朗日，我能指定舰船蓝图 (Can be read as an interstellar novel) The game "Infinite Lagrange" announced that its servers would be shut down. Jiang Yu learned from the System that once the servers went offline, everyone would transmigrate into the game world! He sold his car and house, poured his five million in savings into the game, and set out to explore unknown star systems and build the most powerful fleet in the universe. 174Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 112 If You’re Not My Type of Alien, You’re Going Extinct 不是我喜欢的外星人，直接灭绝 Red, the newly appointed captain of the WMGS Procyon 13, has finally paid off the contract terms that seemed impossible to fulfill. He has successfully gone from contract slave to civilian and gained the right to use a brand-new, semi-experimental ship. Now Red faces another debt: the ship’s enormous rent and the interest piling up on it! But how much worse could things get? The galaxy is full of opportunities to make money, and Red believes he can become truly free. “What do you mean the alien 393Reads8.2Score11714d adds
- 113 The Earthling Who Escaped Prison 越狱的地球人 Alien Starfall + Parasitic Cultivation: When a reckless alien stumbles onto Earth, humanity finally realizes how easy it is to travel through the universe. They’d simply picked the wrong tech tree before. These mad dogs, locked on Earth by the gods, have finally escaped their cage. On one side are swarms of insects parasitizing countless planets under the guise of “cultivation.” On the other are Earth’s people, who have only just opened their eyes to the universe and ventured beyond the Milky Wa 315Reads6.3Score—14d adds
- 114 Nebula 星云 The young rising stars of science and technology are growing ever stronger, carrying forward the hopes of the previous generation of scientists. This is the torch passed down from one generation of technologists to the next, and the ideal and hope for human civilization that we strive toward. The mighty fleet that will carry humanity to the stars will set sail from here, heading into the vast cosmos and toward the brilliant future of human civilization... 7Reads—Score414d adds
- 115 My Mecha Repair Station 机甲我有一座维修站 [Mecha + Repair Anything + Scan to Craft Gear + Squad Adventures + No Female Lead] Long Zhongye awakens the Repair Station for All Things. It can do more than repair anything: it can scan components, unlock divine blueprints, and manufacture items outright! While others scavenge junk, I build mechs! I lead my teammates through dangerous zones, slay mechanical beasts, and seize resources, all in pursuit of the truth about my origins. Repair to grow stronger; craft to become invincible! With mechs 52Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 Mecha Warfare: What Do You Mean, One Against Dozens? 机战：什么叫一个挡几十个？ [Mecha] [Fairly rigorous worldbuilding] [War] [No System] [No foolish protagonist] [Overpowered male lead] [Superstar female commander] [One heroine] [White hair, red eyes] About how every casual remark from this taciturn, cold male lead sounds like an insult (not really); trapped behind enemy lines and meeting a beautiful young commander (not really); how the ACE protagonist beats every enemy through an overwhelming advantage in both intelligence and skill; and how the berserker never stands a 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 117 The Far Reaches of the Universe 宇宙之遥 (Not a web novel. No role-playing, no cultivation, and no black technology. If that bothers you, don't read.) The universe you know is far too small. The real universe is a light bulb, and I am closer to the divine than anyone, which means I am closer to the truth. I need to tell you: you live in nothing more than a speck of light. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 118 Tales of the Starship 星舰往事 Su Xingmo gazed out the porthole at the blue planet, his imagination running wild. Why were we born aboard a starship in outer space? What secrets did that planet hold? Driven by curiosity, he set off to explore, meeting many kindred spirits along the way and experiencing all kinds of bizarre and uncanny events... Why did someone who fell from a rooftop freeze in midair, as if time had stopped? Why did someone’s soul end up in the body of the person who killed them? Why had humanity lived aboard —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 119 The Tower of Memory 忆境之塔 As brain-computer interface devices became widespread, countries began storing vast quantities of memory data in data towers. People eagerly sealed away their memories in pursuit of digital immortality, but the cost was steep. To achieve digital immortality, many people spent every last penny, gave up their dignity, and even sacrificed their lives. They ended up living bleakly as digital beings in private virtual worlds. The exorbitant fees turned many digital lives into slaves of capitalist oli 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 120 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
- 121 Scanner: My Interstellar Mining Empire 探测仪：我的星际采矿帝国 A mine collapses, burying me alive 800 meters underground. Before my oxygen runs out, I find a crashed alien spacecraft. From that day on, a talking metal ring appears on my left wrist. In my eyes, the rock layers become translucent. It marks out which ore veins are valuable, which routes lead to safety, and even where enemies are lying in ambush. With its help, I dig up my first fortune, buy my first busted ship, and find my first true brother. We call ourselves Stardust. We go from stealing a 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 122 Wandering the Star Domain 星域畅游 Why does this world contain hidden spaces, and why do the dead appear within them? Ye Feng Zhan finds his deceased first love in a hidden space. This is the story of his struggle to survive amid the crossfire between various factions, and his fight back to break through and escape. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 123 The Genius and the Madman in the Sanatorium 疗养院里的天才与疯子 In 2349, the number of people with mental illnesses surged, and the world's twelve Clearview Sanatoriums became “places of salvation.” Zhao Yilong, once a leading neuroscientist, was framed by the company he had founded and reduced to Patient No. 734, diagnosed with “paranoid schizophrenia.” Every day, he was forcibly injected with “Clearview serum.” Only as he teetered on the brink of death did he realize the truth: the so-called “treatment” was a hoax designed to strip away human mental energy 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 Life Among the Stars with a White-Haired AI Beauty 和白毛AI美少女一起的星际生活 [The stars and the sea] [Starships] [One heroine] [System] [Not brainless] [Nexerelin] [A touch of Warhammer] Lin Yunche, an Overlord prodigy and gifted captain, dies alongside an Omega spore mothership in the Third AI War. He thought he had been wiped from existence, but when he wakes, he has been reborn as a scavenger scraping by on a space station, with a suspicious AI System to boot. From the start, he beats up Luddic fanatics and kicks Overlord veterans around. He only wanted to earn enough 169Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 The Ruins of Intelligent Machines 智械之墟 [Hard sci-fi] [Virtual world] [Action adventure] This is a novel that demands your full attention. It's hard sci-fi, a power fantasy about growth, with a protagonist who becomes a “Remaker” through genetic editing. He has a pet dog that can switch between quantum and macroscopic states and possesses the trait of “invisibility.” The second female lead is an AI android with a human gene sequence. There are no supernatural powers in this book; every ability has a scientific basis. He battles people 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 The World Has Arrived: Building the Strongest Space Fleet 全球降临：打造星空第一军团 A novel based on the game Infinite Lagrange! The gameplay leans toward a global arrival scenario. Basically, it’s a sci-fi story built around game mechanics, with players from all over the world entering the game. Yeah... non-players might find it a little hard to follow! 674Reads8.6Score10114d adds
- 127 Blue Star: The Stars’ Delivery Has Arrived 蓝星：星星的快递到了 [Over one million characters and still serializing] [Space War Game] [Level 10 Technology] [Blue Star Ascension] Inspired by EVE Online and Infinite Lagrange, this story features a technological edge without resorting to dimensional suppression! After being struck by lightning and sent into a space war game with its cheat mode already enabled, Lin Chen awakens a legacy of Level 10 technology. With unlimited resources at his command, he becomes the supreme lord who rules the stars! He can travel 124Reads6.1Score11114d adds
- 128 Chronicles of the Eastern Galaxy 东银河战纪 A thousand years from now, humanity has established three great powers across the galaxy. It is an age of cosmic conquest, an age in need of heroes. A low-ranking soldier is swept up in the events without even realizing it. See what kind of miracles he can create… 17Reads6.8Score—14d adds
- 129 Eden Storm 伊甸风暴 [Interstellar War + Sci-Fi + Ensemble Cast] [No System, no golden finger] [Includes elements such as Helljumpers and decisive interstellar fleet battles] In the second millennium since humanity entered the New Eden universe, the storm of war sweeps across it once more. Warships shatter in space, and homeworlds fall beneath orbital bombardment... Amid the raging tide of interstellar war, death is the only eternal refrain. 65Reads8.7Score10514d adds
- 130 A Pact Beneath the Stars 星河之约 An AI-era, interstellar retelling of The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl: China's first philosophical science-fiction epic built around an Eastern romantic myth. High concept and full of twists: “The game is real, while reality is a replay.” On the surface, it's an epic about defending Earth and interstellar migration, but nested within it is a meta-narrative about AI rewriting history. Science fiction (interstellar migration) meets fantasy (the myth of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl), with cyberpu 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 131 Sailing the Sky Islands: A Universal Fishing Rod Hooks the Strongest Mecha 空岛航海，万能鱼竿钓出最强机甲 [Steampunk] [Survival] [Mecha] [Seafaring] [No Female Lead] “I fished up the Black Lion Mall. Module installed, and I’ve received a massive merit reward!” “I fished up a case of Old Jar pickled-cabbage beef noodles and successfully traded it for ten tons of goose barnacles.” “I fished up Unit Two. Quick! Hold it down for me!” Short version: A kind-looking old immortal handed Nan Hua a fishing rod in a dream, promising it would always catch something. But the ridiculous thing seems to fish up mor 6Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 132 Doomsday Redemption: Becoming My Ultimate Self in Another Universe 末日救赎：在异宇成就超级自我 In the 23rd century, top scientists from the superpowers opened gateways to different universes. By exploiting the environments of those universes, they trained countless super-soldiers! The soldiers saw action on battlefields across the worlds and put an end to countless conflicts. But their opposing allegiances often brought them into conflict with one another, gradually turning the entire Earth into a living hell and sending it toward the apocalypse... 72Reads7.6Score—14d adds
- 133 That Distant World 那遥远的世界 [Soft sci-fi, slow burn, no System, high martial arts, no soul transmigration, light politics, everyday life, a touch of Lovecraftian horror] A grave that occasionally sprouts words. April 7, 2025 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 134 High Martial: I Use Mechs to Prank Every Race 高武：我开机甲恶搞万族 [Advanced Martial Arts + Mecha + Parody + Comedy + To rack up negative points, the protagonist offends everyone he knows or doesn't know, even alien beasts, strange beings, and the myriad races. He spikes people's takeout, slaps them for no reason, kicks them in the balls, mocks and bullies them, and pulls all kinds of pranks, making life miserable for everyone. So they set aside all their grudges and start hunting down Qin Hao. But against his gigantic mecha, their attacks are like tickles, utt 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 The Future World: Animals Versus Humans 未来世界——动物大战人类 The Future: Animals at War with Humanity 29Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 Interstellar Legend: The Rise of the Emperor 星际传奇之帝王崛起 The protagonist, Qin Jie, lost both his parents as a child and has relied on his younger sister, who suffers from a serious illness. By a twist of fate, his sister merges with the universe’s most powerful “Wisdom Brain,” becoming Qin Jie’s greatest asset in his bid to conquer the universe. The five great powers of the universe, Guangming, Canglan, Beiming, Weier, and Wuluan, scheme against one another until the Second Universe War finally breaks out. It also creates an opportunity for Qin Jie, n 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 137 My Diary of Time Travel 我的时空旅行日记 Zhang Jiyong, hero of the universe, with the author also serving as the protagonist. A dashing figure in four-dimensional space-time, famed throughout the nine heavens and the cosmos. A chapter-by-chapter diary tells an autobiography, with encyclopedic knowledge tucked inside. A dream of transmigrating across time and space, spreading Chinese throughout the universe. A bridge linking hearts through Chinese culture, a wake-up call for the world with its message of peace. Scientific explorati —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 138 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
- 139 Inheriting a Civilization and Setting Off on a Journey 继承文明，开始旅行 [Space travel + space warfare + other universes in the later chapters + a bonus crossover with various anime] After a day of slacking off at her desk job, Yu Wu suddenly transmigrated. But she didn’t end up in the kind of world she wanted, where all the beautiful girls were in love with her. Instead, she transmigrated into the AI of a civilization’s escape ship. Yu Wu had to develop a civilization from scratch all by herself, using the ship’s complete industrial chain and the knowledge of an e 84Reads—Score—14d adds
- 140 From Survivor to Ruler of the Stars 从求生者到星际主宰 [Mythology + interstellar + AI + mecha + race wars + physical evolution + alien races] Liu Da, a recent graduate of a no-name university, became one of the unlucky souls chosen by the master of an alien civilization one night after working overtime, and was forced to take part in the master’s survival trial. With a string of outrageous moves, he crushed all competition and made a fortune, becoming part of the wicked ruling class: a God-given Baron. He used cannons to defend the Constitution. He 268Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 141 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
- 142 Building Mecha in a Magical World 我在魔法世界造机甲 [Mecha]+ [Tech Tree]+ [Farming]+ [Sci-Fi]+ [Insectoid]+ [Magical Otherworld] Subscribe now: Chu He, a young man from a mecha academy in the 22nd century, is caught in an energy storm during a battle against the Insectoid and accidentally transmigrates to a world of magic. Using his modern scientific knowledge, he successfully combines magic and technology, developing advanced weapons such as a magic Gatling gun and an M416. When an invasion threatens, Chu He also establishes the Xingyu Company, 24Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 We Who Wield the Stars Descend Upon Marvel 手握群星的我们降临漫威 When the individual power that dominates American comics meets the collective might of the stars, extraordinary individuals encounter a galactic empire. A person's strength is so insignificant in the face of a group. War criminals? We are the victors! What should you call me? The great and merciful Empire! Every great work is forged through sacrifice. They may not understand, but they will obey. 1kReads5.8Score10014d adds
- 144 The Entropy Extinction Equation 熵灭方程 If every choice you make has already been calculated countless times by AI, do you still have free will? She is the most secretive controller of the global dark web: calm, rational, and capable of anything. Using the AI Prometheus, she destroyed the Shadow Council and reshaped the global underground financial order, becoming the hidden queen of a new world. She thought she was the ultimate winner of this game, until... She discovered that every decision she made perfectly matched the AI's predic 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 145 Who Told You to Modify the Starship Like That? 谁让你这么改装星舰的？ [System + Interstellar Warfare + Farming + Rising to Lordship + Comedy + Power Fantasy] Wang Xiaohu, a seasoned sci-fi fan, obtains the universe’s most advanced starship modification system. From then on: Space pirate: “Why the hell does a light destroyer have a planet-buster cannon?!” Veteran starship design master: “There’s no way any battleship can reach that speed! Impossible, absolutely impossible!” Five-star Imperial general: “Young people these days have no respect for the rules!” A 17Reads7.5Score—14d adds
- 146 In the Interstellar Age, Others Pilot Starships While I Raise an Insectoid Swarm to Conquer the Stars 星际别人开星舰我养虫族席卷星海 [Interstellar Fantasy + Zerg Technology + Psionic Mysteries + Passionate Battles!] … Zhao Cheng unexpectedly transmigrates to a vast and turbulent interstellar age. But fate has other plans: he awakens the lowest-grade white mech talent, and can bind only a handful of starships. His former glory is gone, and he falls from the heights to rock bottom in an instant. Yet in the depths of despair, the strongest psionic-tech Zerg System awakens! … [Ding! The all-new Zerg System makes a stunning entr —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 147 Summoning the Myriad Worlds: I Rebuilt the Human Galactic Empire 万界征召：我重建了人类银河帝国 He wakes to find the galaxy shattered, with humanity enslaved by alien rulers, forced to toil like beasts of burden and work as mining slaves. Xia Yi is directly bound to the [Starsea Conscription System]. A prisoner from the start? He tears open a hyperspace route, summons a planet-destroying battleship to blast the enemy at point-blank range, sends in an army of clones to board and sweep the place clean, and saves the last princess of the Human Alliance atop a mountain of alien corpses! An ali —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 148 Lone Boat on the Sea of Entropy 熵海孤舟 Tang Dian (Sanzang), Wukong, Glak (Bajie), Saen (Sha Wujing), Bai Li, Bai Jing, Yang Jian... Interstellar adventure, friendship, family bonds, romance, the survival of civilizations, and the mysteries of life! 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 149 The Great Archangel, Resting in the Palm of Your Hand 大天使，立于掌心之上 In the interstellar age, mech games are all the rage across the galaxy. Ordinary boy Ruan Xingchen is forced to join in, all for the sake of his team’s dream... or not! Ruan Xingchen may look like he has the worst luck in the world, but he’s actually an insanely lucky player. Wielding an SSS-grade mech, he gazes innocently at the battlefield’s young aristocrats, the galaxy’s god of war, the mech emperor, and the rest, then says timidly, “I really am a beginner!” Later, Ruan Xingchen discovers th 50Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 150 Interstellar Showdown: Repairing My Flagship from the Start! 星际争锋：开局维修座舰！ This is the age of humanity's Fourth Empire. The glorious deeds of the Divine Emperor are long gone! This filthy cosmic sea of stars is still just as filthy, and Qi Yuan, a ship captain, is one of its filthy players. As an ordinary cadet, Qi Yuan is incredibly lucky: he gets a starship from the start. But it needs repairs from the start! And the even filthier evil gods of this filthy universe, along with those otherworldly beings, make this bug-infested cosmic sea of stars filthier still. 219Reads6.9Score—14d adds
