Novels like The Mastermind: Mining in Space to Build a Nation
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- 151 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—Shelves
- 152 The Genetic Era: Beginning with Evolutionary Serum 基因时代：从进化液开始 The rating has just come in and will rise later. [Interstellar, advanced technology, genetic evolution, starships, artificial intelligence, behind-the-scenes, no heroine, space, invincible] Lin Feng unexpectedly obtains a biological supercomputer from a top-tier civilization in the universe, along with a vast treasury of knowledge installed in his mind. Life-extension drugs, god-tier gene serums, brain-development drugs... Even the smallest discovery could shatter Earth's technological limits. B 87Reads5.1Score111Shelves
- 153 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—Shelves
- 154 Interstellar Journey, Starting With a Hand-Built Rocket 从手搓火箭开始的星际之路 [Technology + Transmigration + Big Ideas + Aerospace + No System + Cheat] If a space enthusiast had no System and only a cheat, could they unlock the technology tree step by step, venture into space, land on the moon, build a forward base, and eventually enter an interstellar civilization? 724Reads8.4Score104Shelves
- 155 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. 12Reads—Score—Shelves
- 156 I Made Chinese Technology Rise, Yet I Left Science Behind 我让华夏科技崛起自己却脱离科学 [Black Tech + Xuanhuan + One Female Lead + System + Interstellar Development + Star Domain Warfare] Li Yu leads China’s technological progress, helping it rise step by step. The chip supply is being strangled? No problem. My “quantum chips” are over a hundred times better. The country’s power resources are under too much strain? No problem. I’ve developed controlled nuclear fusion. The country’s firepower shortage is getting worse? No problem. How about a transforming aerospace fighter? What? To —Reads7.1Score—Shelves
- 157 The Sun Explodes, and the Whole World Begs Me to Come Out of Hiding 太阳炸了，全世界喊我出山 In 2025, the sun is torn apart by a wormhole, and the planets of the solar system flee one after another. Blue Star is about to enter a dark age. The surface freezes over, the air solidifies, species go extinct, and humanity faces the greatest disaster in its history. With hundreds of millions calling out to him, Gao Yuan steps forward to turn the tide. Planetary engines, space elevators, interstellar warships, antimatter engines, mercury-based nuclear bombs... Under Gao Yuan’s leadership, human 31Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 158 Caught Working a Winter Break Job: They Asked If I Could Build Nuclear Fusion 寒假兼职被抓，问我核聚变能造吗？ After transmigrating to a parallel world, Lin Mian becomes a sophomore at Ice City University of Technology, the only person in the world capable of launching a nuclear strike. Every day, besides studying hard and winning all kinds of scholarships, he takes part-time jobs at his relatives' factories during summer and winter break. On September 1, the day Ice City University of Technology officially begins its term, he's in class when he's suddenly taken away. "Lin Mian, you're suspected of a ser 1.2kReads6.4Score106Shelves
- 159 I’ll Rule the Entire Universe with a Fleet! 我将用一支舰队统治整个宇宙！ [Interstellar] + [slow burn] + [conquest] + [planet development] + [galactic farming] + [Infinite Flow] + [ensemble cast] + [strategy] + [a hundred billion starships slay a god]! Good news: I've transmigrated into an Interstellar game. Bad news: The game is set during an interstellar apocalypse, and when it reaches its ending, the gods will destroy the entire universe. But as an avid gamer, I command the server's top-ranked S-class fleet and strongest interstellar guild. I thought slaying a god 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 160 Trapped 10,000 Years Before the College Entrance Exam 困在高考前一万年 Yun Chuan was trapped before the college entrance exam, reliving the same day for ten thousand years! Ten thousand years! 3.65 million days! Every day was June 5! At first, he was terrified and despairing. He even took revenge on society. But no matter what happened or where he was, even if he was executed one second, he would wake up in his bed at home the next. And begin another cycle! To keep his mind from breaking, he had to find things to do. He studied and honed his skills. Over ten thousa 40.5kReads7.5Score2.7kShelves
- 161 Thirty Thousand Years into the Future 未来三万年 An ultimate civilization’s warship from another universe crashes into the greater cosmos. To escape the heat death of the universe, civilizations everywhere clash over it. An eighth-level civilization, among the universe’s twelve levels of civilization, fights its way from higher-dimensional spacetime to the Solar System. Meanwhile, human civilization is in the midst of an artificial intelligence rebellion, and the surviving humans are forced to flee into the vast universe. Drift, survive, devel 69Reads—Score—Shelves
- 162 Reborn with a Tech Tree 重生科技树 A programmer for a homegrown operating system is unexpectedly reborn in 1994. Driven by an unshakable resolve, he embarks on a legendary life. He starts out manufacturing VCD players, then moves on to databases and operating systems, lithography machines and CPUs. Watch as he gradually unlocks the tech tree and reshapes the entire electronics industry through his own efforts... 473Reads8.7Score102Shelves
- 163 Butterfly Bone Brand! Umbilical Knot! Moonlight Ring! 蝶骨烙！脐带结！月光戒！ ( #Sci-Fi #Mystery #Family Bonds #Genius Boy #System Story #Sweet Romance ) During physics class, my school uniform spontaneously burst into flames. Blue light crept out from the collar and formed a snake on my chest, biting its own tail. My homeroom teacher, Zhou Wen, told me to go home and find my mother, saying, “It's time to reel in the kite.” But when my mom saw my father's distress signal in the washing machine, her hands trembled so much she could barely hold her soup bowl. Later, I le —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 164 Venus in the East, the Evening Star in the West: Evolution 东有启明西为长庚：进化 No traffic, so updates are suspended indefinitely. I’ll come back to update once my new book starts getting traffic. [Hard sci-fi + xianxia fantasy + urban + multidimensional universe + fictional world + all kinds of people + genetic evolution + intense combat + megastructure mechs] “Surrealism” P.S. The female lead is a White Tiger. This is not a wish-fulfillment novel. The xianxia war begins right away, and the early plot revolves around the Four Wars. The story focuses on a civilization’s col 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 165 Interstellar: My Fleet Is a Little Bit Too Powerful! 星际：我的舰队有亿点点强！ [Interstellar + warships + alternate world + sci-fi] This is the story of a young man waging war across the universe. As a child, Siegfried accidentally awakened the "Universal Civilization Conquest System," beginning his journey to recruit a fleet and conquer the universe. Across the boundless universe, many powerful civilizations keep weaker ones in captivity, taking delight in watching them slaughter one another as if they were gods. They are confident that these lesser civilizations will nev 5Reads—Score139Shelves
- 166 I Am the World's Bug 我是世界的bug A dazzling, surreal science-fiction world, The hustle and bustle of urban life, Which is real, and which is an illusion? I am the bug who stands above the world! Hard sci-fi, boundless imagination, twist after twist 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 167 Beneath the Dome: Steel Tempest 穹顶之下：钢铁怒涛 At first, no one paid any attention to the disaster. It wasn’t until the first giant beast tore through the coastline that humanity saw the apocalypse in the glare of nuclear fire. Five years later, Lin Feng is the bottom-ranked washout at the Mech Academy, while his girlfriend, Su Rui, brushes the dust of the past in an ancient civilization research institute. When the Sea-Splitter tears through the steel dome, he charges toward the beast’s jaws in a rust-covered training mech. All so Su Ru —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 168 The Age of Light 光明纪 This story features a lot of technology and science fiction. A note from the new author, who is writing freely and openly: The story does use AI, without a doubt. I hope I can write a good novel, and the kind of novel I want to read. Thank you. In the vast theater of the cosmos, human civilization unfolds its most magnificent epic. This is not an endless conquest for energy, but a great journey of growth from ignorance to awakening, from exploitation to coexistence. The story spans three grand 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 169 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—Shelves
- 170 It’s Only the Dawn of the New Century, and the Rabbit’s Already Gone Interstellar? 这才新世纪初，兔子你星际了？ The Eagle Sauce government introduced a series of deception plans, sharply increasing the difficulty of the graduation project for Bai Ri, a National Defense University student who had transmigrated to a parallel world. Faced with the sudden spike in difficulty of his graduation assessment, the transmigrator Bai Ri awakened the ability to communicate with the future just in time. In the future, humanity had resolved every energy crisis, and technology had reached an entirely new level. Even ordi 256Reads6.8Score108Shelves
- 171 Ode to Joy 欢乐颂 A short science fiction story by Liu Cixin, renowned science fiction author and Hugo Award winner. —Reads8.5Score—Shelves
- 172 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… 18Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 173 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 47Reads—Score—Shelves
- 174 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—Shelves
- 175 The Designer of the South Heaven Gate Project Gets Expelled from Vocational School 南天门计划设计师，被技校劝退 The Dragon Kingdom Academy of Sciences receives a manuscript, instantly causing an uproar: “What? They developed controlled nuclear fusion, the technology that has baffled humanity for centuries?” “And the researcher... is a second-year student at a vocational college?” “A student from a junior college can do research?!” The world's scientific community is stunned. As everyone watches, Sun Quan gradually enters the public eye. Everything he says and does leaves people even more astonished: “He s 1.1kReads5.5Score—Shelves
- 176 I Sold a Toy Emperor Hero, So Why Are You Asking About Military Mechs? 卖个玩具帝皇侠，军用机甲什么鬼 [Cooperation with the State] [Military Industry] [Rise of a Great Power] [Love of Country and Family] [Black Technology] [Mechanical Ascension] [Interstellar] [I'm just a toy salesman, so why do you insist I'm an arms dealer?] Chu Yunqiu unlocks the [Modification System]. As long as others acknowledge his products, he earns modification points and black technology! With this System, he quickly becomes a toy-industry tycoon and launches the Emperor Armor Summoner! Netizens: "What good is a summon —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 177 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 23Reads—Score—Shelves
- 178 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. 25Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 179 You Couldn't Even Make a Sixth-Generation Fighter for a Movie, but You Built One? 拍电影都没八代机，你搞出来了？ After being fired, the overworked Xia Mingyu unexpectedly awakens the Ultimate National Fortune System. His own fate is now closely tied to the strength of his country. At the same time, he can improve the nation’s fortune and earn various rewards by raising Huaguo’s technological and military capabilities, among other things. So he sets his sights on the J-20, the most advanced fighter Huaguo has developed so far. According to the System, it can be upgraded as far as an eighth-generation fighte 15Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 180 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—Shelves
- 181 Invincible Divine Wings: I’m So Good at Tightening Screws, I’m Practically Flying 神翼无敌：打螺丝溜到飞起 [Comedy + Transmigration + Urban + Fantasy + Sci-Fi] If you had a screwdriver that could tear down a house or pry open the entire universe, but couldn't be used to fix a car, what would happen if one day you were forced to use it to repair a car? This book offers a fresh reading experience and a story packed with unprecedented thrills, all starting with a screwdriver... 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 182 Night of the World: Ghosts of Consciousness 世界之夜：意识的幽灵 With the arrival of emerging technologies such as large language models and brain-computer interfaces, humanity has entered a new technological revolution. Yet at first, many people failed to realize that beneath this great leap forward, the very foundations of human consciousness were trembling. Even language, which seemed to be consciousness’s strongest support, was found to resemble a terrifying prison. In the midst of this profound panic, human civilization began to fracture... As the philos 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 183 You Make Me Breathe Secondhand Smoke, I'll Make Tobacco Unable to Produce Nicotine 你让我吸二手烟，我让烟草合成不了尼古丁 You make me breathe your secondhand smoke, and I'll make it impossible for tobacco to synthesize nicotine. 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 184 The Top Student’s Rise Begins at the New Concept Essay Contest 学霸从新概念作文大赛开始 In his previous life, he was a construction worker drifting from site to site. Reborn into this life, he unexpectedly unlocked a superhuman mind: he could remember everything he saw and grasp math and science with ease! He rose to first place in his grade in his first year of high school, then claimed the top spot in the provincial science track in his second. He won first prize in the New Concept Essay Contest and became a young novelist with over a million books sold. At Yanda University, he w 96Reads—Score140Shelves
- 185 Science and Technology: I Spent All My Allowance on Nuclear Fusion Research from the Start 科技：开局花光抚养费研究核聚变 [Technological Superpower + Genius + Business Empire + Cutting-Edge Tech + Sci-Fi + Civilization + Interstellar] After splitting up with his ex-wife, Wan Xiang stayed in the country to raise his child, while using child support money to develop controllable nuclear fusion. “You hacked into our supercomputing center just to calculate a nuclear fusion model!?” “You’re going to livestream a nuclear fusion ignition at the International Atomic Energy Conference!?” “A compact dual nuclear fusion engin 88Reads7.0Score—Shelves
- 186 Technological Empire: Who Told You to Design Weapons Like This? 科技帝国：谁让你这样设计武器？ [Sci-fi + period piece + technology + satisfying wish fulfillment + the rise of a great nation + reborn + Project Nantianmen] The year is 1980, a time of rising tensions between the two superpowers. China’s military industry is being sacrificed for economic development, and long-established arms manufacturers are struggling to survive. Zhou Zhiyuan gets another shot at life in the 1980s and takes over Donghua Machinery Plant, a company on the brink of collapse, to boost the “Dayun”’s performa 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 187 Mad, Wild Cosmos 狂疯宙宇 [Not a power fantasy] [No System] [Ensemble cast] [No mindless characters] [Long-term story] Read with caution if these elements bother you. Under the shadow of an energy-depleted apocalypse, humanity fabricates an extraterrestrial threat in a desperate bid to break the deadlock. This astonishing deception, spanning ten years, drags all of humanity into madness! A shocking secret lies deep beneath the earth, while a phony war plays out on the surface. A mysterious underground laboratory, a bruta 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 188 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 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 189 Toward the Deep Space, Starting with the Tech Tree 迈向深空从攀科技树开始 Not a mindless power fantasy! Not a mindless power fantasy! NOT a mindless power fantasy!!! [Sci-fi concepts + System + spaceflight + alien civilization ruins] (The early chapters focus on spaceflight; the main plot begins around chapter 50.) Humanity lives on Blue Star, but it can’t live on Blue Star forever. Zhou Shihang, a reborn man suffering from a rare genetic disease, unexpectedly gains a System. Guided by the System, he saves his own life with the help of a technological advancement tree 11Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 190 Entropy of the Galaxy 星河之熵 [Hard science fiction] Here you'll find the most rigorous scientific worldbuilding, the deepest emotional entanglements, countless cosmic wonders, and the boundless tenderness of the human heart. Here, superclusters wage war and beings clash across dimensions. Witness where humanity, a fragile Level 0.7 civilization, is ultimately headed... 32Reads—Score—Shelves
- 191 I Found Future Black Technology, but I Use It to Build Real Industries 捡到未来黑科技，我却用来干实业 In 2051, Cheng Yuan, a PhD in solid-state physics researching new-energy batteries, loses his job and on the very same day comes across a super AI that has transmigrated from the future to the present. With its help, Cheng Yuan brings future technologies such as graphene batteries, mass drivers, and space elevators into reality ahead of their time. But what he never expected was that disasters that should not have happened for another hundred years would arrive early too. The AI crisis, a space 2.5kReads6.0Score137Shelves
- 192 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 78Reads8.0Score—Shelves
- 193 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—Shelves
- 194 Made in China 中国制造 Change the fundamental methods of manufacturing and create an entirely new world. This is the story of Zhao Fei, who finds an alien manufacturing base, transforms the manufacturing industry, and redefines Made in China. 309Reads—Score—Shelves
- 195 I Said That Shot Was an Accident, Do You Believe Me, Eagle Sauce? 我说那一炮是误射，鹰酱你信吗？ “Those were toy planes! How was I supposed to know they’d use them to bomb a goddess statue? Come on, I run a legitimate toy factory!” Lu Feng, owner of Spark Toy Factory, was at a complete loss. After transmigrating, Lu Feng inherited his family’s toy factory, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, and awakened a Military Industry System. He gritted his teeth and applied military technology to toy planes, only for them to catch the eye of a foreign big shot during a livestream. Then came the new 3Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 196 The Nation Is in Decline, Yet the System Wants Me to Be Its Savior 祖国衰微，系统居然要当我救世主 [Scientific research, protection by the motherland, life-or-death System, savior] An underachieving eighth-grade student unexpectedly unlocks a tycoon System that strengthens his country whenever he conducts scientific research. But the price is an equivalent exchange: all the harm is transferred onto me! I wanted to turn a blind eye, but “everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of their country.” I am willing to give everything to defend every inch of our ancestral land with my life! We 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 197 The Tale of the Cawing Crow 乌啼记 A supernova explosion in Betelgeuse coincides with a total solar eclipse, triggering a chain of space-weather disasters. A massive solar storm causes a worldwide blackout, sending human civilization back to square one overnight. People enduring life in the cities yearn for the peace and quiet of the countryside. But then prehistoric floods erupt once more, submerging every continent. Sea levels rise as the land shrinks, and human civilization proves utterly fragile in the face of an apocalyptic 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 198 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—Shelves
- 199 The Obedient Little Disciple of the Cold Master 清冷师尊的乖巧小徒弟 Cool, breathtakingly beautiful master gong (Jiang Mohan) × well-behaved disciple shou (Shen Linchuan) When Shen Linchuan was three, a passing Taoist priest called him an ill-omened child. His parents immediately abandoned him, and later, Jiang Mohan took him on as a disciple at the apprenticeship ceremony. But then... Shen Linchuan: “Master~ Please let me go~ It hurts~” Jiang Mohan: “Let you go? Then who knows who you'll go looking for next.” I'm no good at writing b 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 200 The Wandering Planet: The Trisolaris Fleet and Earth 【流浪星球：三体舰队与地球】 The Wandering Planet: The Fate of the Trisolaran Fleet and Earth. Inspired by Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem and The Wandering Earth, this story follows two civilizations in another time and place as they meet in friendship, confront crises together, explore and roam the cosmos, develop side by side, and search together for a new home. 31Reads—Score—Shelves
