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- 1 Landing on an Alien World 异星降落 The waves rose and fell on the beach in time with his breathing. Suddenly, the rhythm of that “breathing” grew erratic. A wave crashed hard against his legs. He looked toward the depths of the ocean, where a gigantic object was rising to the surface. It was so enormous he could scarcely believe it, so immense that he couldn't imagine what lay hidden beneath the water. 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 The Pursuit of Eternal Life 永生追逐 When humanity uses “Source Essence” to escape the pursuit of death, and “Star Gates” to turn the galaxy into its own garden. Will you choose to become a specimen in an endlessly warm bath? Or choose, amid a storm that may be brief, to be a living bird, if only for a moment? This book tells a story set in a vast cosmic era, one full of grandeur, upheaval, and twists and turns! “This is a work that strives for depth and an epic feel. Updates may be slow, but every chapter is carefully polished. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Reborn 99 Times: My System Is Qin Shi Huang 重生99次：我的系统是秦始皇 He's here, he's here! I rubbed the lamp and summoned the First Emperor of Aladdin, and now he won't leave me alone. The First Emperor, Ying Zheng, bound himself to me through a quantum consciousness link. I'm Lin Chen, a special forces soldier from the future. First Emperor: We'll need the Heavenly Book of Physics to break the deadlock. Lin Chen: Right, a scientific exorcism. I get it. Ninety-nine cycles. Ninety-nine civilizations destroyed. This time, I'll take this “physics genius” of an emp 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 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
- 5 Drifting Through Space 太空游荡 [Sci-fi + adventure + philosophy + alien civilizations + the truths of the universe] In the 31st century, an extinction-level civilization arrives, and Earth's seed civilization is struck by a dimensionality-reduction attack. A wandering fleet searches for a seeding civilization with a shared genetic heritage. Over the course of ten thousand years of spacefaring adventures, it encounters a vast array of advanced civilizations. The Battle of the Era brings civilization back from the brink. Humani 19Reads—Score—14d adds
- 6 System, You Didn't Give Me a Star Destroyer Just to Deliver It, Did You? 系统你是来送歼星舰的吧 What, this System can teleport a star destroyer straight to me? Then I can just lie back and relax, right? [System + star destroyers + national strength + interstellar warfare + a heroine who can be sweet or fierce + ensemble cast, intelligent enemies, grand worldbuilding] By chance, Ye Feng acquires a System called RC01. He thinks it’s useless, since all it can do is input pinyin. But it turns out this thing can teleport interstellar warships! From the start, a spherical fortress appears and si 262Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 A Swallow's Nest on the Curtain 燕巢幕上 Five races exist in the universe: humans, gods, demons, devils, and ghosts. These five races established strict agreements back in ancient Egypt, promising not to interfere with one another. Even today, Earth hides many organizations dedicated to maintaining the seemingly peaceful status quo, though it is as precarious as a nest beneath the eaves, with danger lurking everywhere. The Five Races: Humans: No introduction needed, right? Gods: Highly advanced extraterrestrial beings from the center —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Cthulhu Mythos: Become Earth’s God! 克苏鲁神话，成为地球的神吧！ [Hard Science and Technology + Supernatural Creatures + Catastrophe + Alien Lifeforms + Digital Life + Interstellar] In the year 4567, the Eye of Dawn returned to the Solar System. By studying historical records, its crew determined Earth’s coordinates. Unfortunately, the planet was in ruins, with no human compatriots left. However, the exploration robots found several granite slabs, each several square meters in size, covered in dense writing they could not understand. After researchers examine 107Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 The Flintstone Era 火石纪元 The energy of the underground firestone spirals out of control. The mysterious crystals Xu Chu and the miners dig up lead to a global catastrophe. These crystals, threaded with flowing golden veins, are “locator beacons” planted by an alien civilization. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 10 Visitor from Sirius 天狼星来客 In 2250, not long after the Chinese Space Force was established, it faced a tremendous challenge. Several alien ships from Sirius were about to reach the Solar System. The Space Force dispatched the Jiang Ziya, leading several Nezha-class destroyers in a task force to intercept them in the Oort Cloud. But the task force was outmatched, and the alien ships pressed straight ahead. Twenty-seven-year-old Martian Liu Yiming set off from Mars to deliver the latest mine-laying ship to Jupiter. After hi 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 11 The Void Cipher 虚空密码 An accidental detection experiment in the Virgo Supercluster leaves Shuliang Fu and the others seriously injured. With memories reconstructed and parallel worlds involved, they set out to find the truth. The male lead, a scientist, uses quantum entanglement and quantum tunneling between parallel worlds to investigate what really happened. The story is full of mysteries and heart-pounding twists, and the truth behind the events is deeply poignant... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 12 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
- 13 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
- 14 XCOM3: Requiem from Deep Space XCOM3：来自深空的安魂曲 An XCOM fanfic. Any similarities are purely coincidental. After the New Liberation War against the Elders ended, Earth finally found peace. With the United Government established under XCOM's leadership, resistance factions like the Reapers, Skirmishers, and Templars were gradually integrated into the new order. The story seemed to end there, but no one expected the Muton regime's surrender to mark not the beginning of lasting peace, but a thirty-year truce... The Commander will continue leading 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 The Nature of a Predator 掠夺者的本质 [Ensemble cast + multiple perspectives + no protagonist + no System + not a power fantasy] When humanity finally set out to explore the stars, they hoped to make friends with the civilizations they encountered. But the universe was far from simple. An interstellar war was raging, and humanity, fresh to the scene, was accidentally swept into the conflict. Can humanity prove to the Federation that they aren’t monsters lurking in the darkness by protecting their allies from the invasion of the “Her 62Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 16 My Everyday Life Is Nothing but Bugs 我的日常全是BUG A feel-good story with none of the usual cheat codes: no transmigration, no System, no rebirth, and no superpowers. Just a lighthearted, funny urban mystery-horror tale. Wang Yu is a slacker and an ordinary college graduate, utterly unremarkable aside from his wild imagination and nerves of steel. He loves instant noodles, loves to lie flat, and loves anime. But after a strange encounter at a convenience store, he begins to uncover all kinds of bugs in Earth Online. Using science and imagination 17Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 Nine Days Eternal: When the National Day Holiday Became the End of Memory 九日永恒当国庆假期成为记忆终点 [Hard Sci-Fi] [Ensemble Cast] [No Golden Finger] [Infinite Flow] [Mystery] [Death isn't the end. Forgetting is. But when my memories have been altered, I can't even be sure that I'm dead.] I died. To be precise, I watched my own head fall into a pool of blood, while blood from my severed carotid artery stained the ground red. But the next second, I woke up again. My wife's diary lay on the bedside table, but when I opened it, the handwriting was mine. The whole world is Truman's prison 1kReads9.4Score10714d adds
- 18 The Deep-Space Conspiracy 深空迷局 Li Guangyuan’s father was involved in an unexpected accident while carrying out a Mars expedition mission assigned by the United Government, leaving him and his companions stranded on the Martian surface. The United Government then began planning to send Li Guangyuan and others to Mars to rescue them. But when Li Guangyuan arrived on Mars, a sudden crisis around him gradually made him realize that the United Government’s mission was a deception. And as events grew ever more puzzling, an even gre 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 Calling Out to You Beyond the Stars 在群星之外呼唤你 Calling to You from Beyond the Stars 27Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 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 7Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 The Annihilation of the Solar System 湮灭太阳系 In just a few short years, a high school student tore apart the ironclad laws of physics. With only a few pages, he predicted the impending catastrophe. But was he a hero holding a crumbling edifice upright, or the mastermind secretly pulling the strings? In an age of crisis, humanity cast aside all prejudice and division, staking everything on one final effort to defend the right of our blue planet to survive. 23Reads8.4Score214d adds
- 22 The Three-Body Problem: Igniting the Dark Forest from Zero 三体，从零点燃黑暗森林 By sheer chance, ordinary nerd Chen Dazhuang transmigrates into the world of The Three-Body Problem, and through a twist of fate, is chosen as a Wallfacer. He hopes to use the opportunity to become the happiest shut-in in history without affecting the story’s direction, but the ETO assigns him a genius beauty as his Wallbreaker. The butterfly effect that follows quietly steers the story in a direction he never imagined... 743Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 23 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
- 24 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
- 25 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
- 26 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 131Reads—Score10014d adds
- 27 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
- 28 The Oort Resonance 奥尔特共振 The crumbling borderland Sparkfire Alliance faces treachery from the deep-space interest groups of the Earth-based Interstellar Federation behind it, and a mysterious, ruthless symbiotic civilization bent on formatting it from the front. After more than a century of being battered, after more than a century of resistance, a new generation of Sparkfire children is finally ready to pass beyond the Oort Nebula and cross the Star Abyss Gate. Where does the Star Abyss lead? What kind of civilizations 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 Daybreak and Starlight 黎日星夜 There comes a moment when we all look up at the stars, hoping for change, doesn’t there? Even if we’re overlooked like a faint glimmer, even if we walk alone, we’re not truly alone. We all hope for a better future, don’t we? I’ll use my own thoughts to write the dream of my future, to tell this epic spanning a thousand years and record the lives of ordinary people, including the ethical challenges humanity faces after every technological revolution. Sometimes I envy people who seem like walking 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 30 Even an AI Like Me Has to Work and Pay Rent? 我一个AI也要打工交租金？ Upload your consciousness and achieve digital immortality. No female lead + hard sci-fi + taking over the global village. What do you do when your digital self is broke? Simple: heroes have no need to explain where they came from, and neither does Bitcoin. 447Reads5.8Score—14d adds
- 31 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
- 32 The Observation Box 观察箱 A slow-burn soft sci-fi story with a fully realized world and rigorous logic. Not a power fantasy. The entire city is permanently frozen in 1996. The streets are intact, the buildings have not crumbled, and everything is as familiar as ever. Only human life has fallen utterly silent. There are no hordes of zombies, no supernatural hauntings, and no special powers or Systems to fall back on. Only a real world trapped in time, filled with countless subtle anomalies. Stranded alone in an empty cit 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 33 Dangerous Technology Containment Center: The Dark Tide Strikes 危险科技收容所：暗潮侵袭 [Slow Burn + No System + Interstellar + Disaster] Chen Fan, an avid angler, transmigrates into a post-apocalyptic wasteland, only to be arrested by a higher civilization for illegal transmigration. To avoid a five-thousand-year prison sentence, he chooses to join the higher civilization and work for them. As a dangerous technology containment officer, his job is to investigate and deal with all kinds of dangerous technologies that threaten civilizations. At the same time, he must step in to save 67Reads9.3Score—14d adds
- 34 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! 42Reads—Score—14d adds
- 35 The Mirror 镜子 A short science fiction story by Liu Cixin, renowned science fiction author and Hugo Award winner. —Reads8.5Score—14d adds
- 36 The Mastermind: Mining in Space to Build a Nation 幕后黑手：我在星际挖矿养国家 [Black Technology] [Sci-Fi] [Lighthearted] [Behind the Scenes?] [Ensemble Cast?] Candy shop owner Ji Shang has a little secret: his partner, "Jin Zhao," spends every day either mining or getting ready to mine. From topological spar to shadow-forged stone, the "local specialties" he stuffs into the national laboratory get more and more outrageous. There is only one goal: speed up Xia's technological progress! Not a power fantasy, and no handing out technology directly. 2kReads8.6Score16014d adds
- 37 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. 149Reads5.2Score—14d adds
- 38 Quantum Suicide 量子自杀 From tying knots to keep records to inventing writing, was this progress, or a misguided path that meant abandoning consciousness by transferring it outside ourselves? Some scientists believe that human society took a wrong turn right from the beginning, and they will go to any lengths to prove it through experiments. The Twin Stars Experiment is designed to study the human mind, but how much do we really understand about consciousness? Li Zaiming was an ordinary observer in the experiment. Afte 28Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 39 The Void Gate: Redemption 虚空之门之救赎 In the distant Fen Zhong System, there are two life-bearing planets: Wen Di Star and Tian Cheng Star. The Sake people of Wen Di Star revere war, believing that only war can make their people stronger and ensure they become invincible across the universe. Tian Cheng Star, on the other hand, values peace and development. For thousands of years, led by the Yali people, its inhabitants have stood united. To defend against the Sake invasion, they successfully developed the Void Gate System, which can 1Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 40 A Sci-Fi Novel Disguised as an Urban Fiction 一本披着都市外皮的科幻文 (Academic prodigy, black technology, the Nantianmen Project, strengthening the nation through science and technology, exploring the mysteries of the cosmos, uncovering a conspiracy to wipe out intelligent life in the Milky Way!) After enduring countless hardships, every sector of the nation flourishes. The Eastern dragon licks its wounds and rises reborn from the ashes! Yet a Gulf War saw a country across the sea use cutting-edge technology to teach the whole world a harsh lesson. From then on, 184Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 41 Tales from the Cretaceous 白垩纪往事 A short science fiction story by Liu Cixin, the renowned science fiction author and Hugo Award winner. —Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 42 Don't Panic, Let Me See Why There's an Extra Screw 别慌，让我看看为啥多了一颗螺丝 [Black Technology] [Sci-Fi] [Lighthearted] Moyang: “You said you'd watch a supernova explode with me, right?” Gu Ze: “Right!” Technology and energy progression: controlled nuclear fusion -> controlled annihilation reaction -> black hole energy -> vacuum zero-point energy -> ? This isn't a power fantasy. You won't find assassinations, kidnappings, or struggles here. After all, the author has already given the protagonist a cheat. If those things still showed up, wouldn't the cheat be wasted? 2.8kReads8.7Score14614d adds
- 43 I Turned Myself In to Save My Life 为了活命我把自己上交了 [Technological Rise of a Nation - No Romance, Female Lead - Comedy] (Hardcore technology. I'm going to make all those armchair scientists and DIY engineering fans eat dirt.) This book is also known as The Road to National Strength Begins with a Lithography Machine. Major Bu Yinan of the Galactic Federation leads humanity's suicide squad in a final battle against the Zerg Queen! As she lies on the brink of death, the Zerg Queen sacrifices half her soul to activate a space-time jump and turn the t 114Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 44 Clouds of Poetry 诗云 A short science fiction story by Liu Cixin, renowned science fiction writer and Hugo Award winner. —Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 45 Perfect Symbiosis 极致共生 The ratings have just come in. They don't reflect the novel's quality. [New Setting] [Superpowers] [Mutants] [Hard Science Fiction] [Authentic Cultivation Path] [Cyborgs] [Mecha] Have you ever seen the apocalypse, my friend? The apocalypse you imagine might be extreme cold or zombies roaming everywhere, but none of that counts as a true apocalypse. A true apocalypse is when humanity loses the basic conditions for survival: the air, the water, and everything it once had... This is a story about h 12Reads7.1Score11514d adds
- 46 The Madmen's Academy 癫人科学院 Mad Genius, Mind-Bending, Science Fiction, Ensemble Cast, No CP, No Golden Finger It quietly and silently turns humans into impostors. There is no smoke-filled battlefield, no interstellar war, and human society is perfectly peaceful. Even the various religions have been replaced by the Joyous Society, which preaches love and peace. What's wrong with that? Nothing, except... Humanity is no longer human. We are being colonized in the midst of perfect harmony, unaware of it, merrily marching towa 164Reads9.2Score—14d adds
- 47 Interstellar: The Rise of Yanhuang 星际：炎黄崛起 A young soldier stationed on an alien planet happens upon an intelligent program capable of evolving. He ventures into the cosmos, gradually encounters advanced civilizations, builds high-tech weapons and warships, fights bloody battles among the stars, and spreads the might of the Yanhuang people. This is pure science fiction, planned to run to four million words. There are no melodramatic plot twists or face-slapping formulas, only ever-rising combat intelligence and steely courage. 5.6kReads8.6Score69114d adds
- 48 Flying in the Blue 蓝色中飞行 Tags: hard sci-fi, no mindless characters, no dumbing down, no System, no transmigration, no rebirth Like The Three-Body Problem, this is all about big ideas! I'll make detailed revisions after finishing the later chapters. For now, just treat this as an outline. As a child, I was full of fantasies. As I grew up, they seemed increasingly likely to become reality. I longed for the future and imagined the technology of a world to come. Perhaps somewhere in the vast sea of stars, things like this a 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 The Adventurer of Evolution 进化之探险家 In the silent universe, we cannot possibly be alone. We must prove our worth. We huddle in our home star system, enjoying a peace that lasts only an instant. When we encounter other life, if we cannot forge a blade to defend our civilization, we may evaporate like morning dew, leaving not even a tombstone behind. Some among us are destined to gaze up at the stars, braving every hardship as they venture one after another into the unknown abyss. Our protagonist, an ordinary person who seems unrema 12Reads—Score214d adds
- 50 I Handed Over the Super God Academy from the Start, and the Entire Nation Helped Me Become a God 开局上交超神学院，举国助我成神 [Nation-Building + Cutting-Edge Technology + Interstellar + Overpowered Lead] Engineering student Yang Xing unexpectedly obtains an ultimate technology academy hidden among the civilizations of the universe. From the start, he submits chip technology to his country! Train with time accelerated a hundredfold, and strengthen your body with genetic serum! The entire nation rallies to protect him, the Dragon Soul Special Forces clear the way, and military bigwigs line up to beg for his technology! C 13.9kReads—Score1.1k14d adds
