Novels like Selecting Humanity
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- 1 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 21Reads—Score—14d adds
- 2 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 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 3 Technology Has Exploded 科技炸了 In the distant future, technology advances at an unprecedented pace, with ever-changing innovations lighting humanity’s path like brilliant stars. This world is filled with endless possibilities: from interstellar spacecraft exploring the cosmos to nanobots in the microscopic realm, from smart devices that transform daily life to gene-editing technologies that rewrite the code of life. The birth of every new technology is a revolution that shakes people to their core. In this age of opportunity 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 4 Calamity Strikes: I Become the Creator God in the Void 天灾降临：我在虚空当创世神 Urban planner He Muyan unexpectedly binds herself to the Disaster Relief System. At first, she thinks it is merely a high-dimensional, immersive infrastructure-building game, where she can survey eight worlds on the brink of destruction and manage them with cold, data-driven precision. In the initial world, battered by torrential rain, the divine defensive fortress she casually summons crushes the rebels' conspiracy and saves Li Ying, a blind priestess. From that moment on, the incomprehensible —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 5 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
- 6 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 82Reads—Score—14d adds
- 7 If You Vanish, the Universe Becomes Nothing 你若消逝宇宙为零 I haven't looked at the table of contents, and everything feels kind of all over the place. I'm new, nobody's reading this, and no one's given me any advice, so I'm pretty lost. Please give me some suggestions... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 8 Slacking Off at University: I Lie Flat My Way to Becoming an Academic Big Shot! 高校摸鱼：我靠躺平成学术大佬！ (This book is complete. If you enjoyed it, please click on my author name to check out my other books! Thank you, everyone!) I'm Lin Chen, a PhD in a low-value field from Southeast Asia. Everyone looks down on me, and honestly, I'm the least impressive one of all... But on my first day at work, I activated the Slacking System! As long as I refuse to join the rat race and leave work on time, I can grow stronger! [Ding! Host detected refusing to work pointless overtime. Slacking Points +100!] [Din 18Reads—Score—14d adds
- 9 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
- 10 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
- 11 I Build a Technology Tree to Make My Country Strong 我靠科技树科技强国 The story of civilization has no end. Every time we gaze up at the stars, we look back toward home. Every step into the unknown measures how far we’ve come from our beginnings. The embers have scattered, but their faint light still shines. And the journey is always just beginning. The protagonist, Chu Tian, was an obscure engineering student who accidentally received an electric shock in the lab and bonded with a “Future Tech Tree” System from a higher-dimensional civilization. The System gradua 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 12 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
- 13 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
- 14 I Drew a Piece of Paper, So Why Did I Get the Military's Attention? 我就画张纸，怎么惊动军方了？ He was a lopsided genius who could score only thirty points in English, a laughingstock among his classmates and a target for the school bully. Until he drew a sketch that would change the fate of his country. It led him into a world hidden beneath the abyss. There, his “incomprehensible ramblings” were hailed as a genius’s ideas, and his casual doodles became the sparks that ignited the nation’s most powerful weapons. From the “Blackbird” electromagnetic cannon, whose sudden thunder shook the 67Reads—Score—14d adds
- 15 A Boning Knife from the Start 开局一把剔骨刀 As a celestial body draws near, gravity collapses, and tsunamis and fissures repeatedly ravage the surface. Humanity is forced to undergo genetic mutations: without eating the flesh of mutated beasts, people starve to death, but even one careless bite can turn them into monsters. While the whole world fights over a single safe piece of meat, Lu Yan, once the finest chef before the disaster, takes out his family's ancestral boning knife. With the first cut, he strips away gravity, and an indestru —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 16 Technology, Created with Care 用心创造科技 Ran Qingling thought life was as bland as a glass of water. In her junior year of college, she couldn’t get her experiments to work and couldn’t see what the future held. She went through the motions every day. Nothing was wrong, but nothing was right, either. Then, on the night she watched a meteor shower, she made a casual wish. The next morning, she woke up with a System in her head. A ten-pull gave her nine bottles of stamina potion and one super AI. She named the AI Jarvis, and from then on 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 17 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
- 18 Aquarium Civilization 鱼缸文明 The Dark Forest theory has never been just about shooting and hiding. There's another, more terrifying possibility: we're fish kept in a fishbowl, forever unable to leap out and see the observers beyond it. A hypercivilization silently watches humanity in its fishbowl, purely for entertainment. We press onward through the darkness. Stay content, and all remains as it is. Break through the walls, and hope is slim. Stay content, or break through the walls? A sweet dream, or a despairing reality? 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 19 Heart of Time and Space: An Odyssey Across Dimensions 时空之心：维度间的奥德赛 In the future, humanity has established colonies throughout the stars. But a mysterious “spacetime entropy increase” crisis is quietly descending, triggering a series of strange “spacetime folds.” Albert Einstein, the legendary physicist, miraculously comes back to life. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 20 Proto-Earth 元地球 (Traditional sci-fi, choose with caution) Just as humanity finally overcame countless hardships and began exploring the nature of matter, a series of strange events occurred. Humanity, which had thought itself all-knowing and all-powerful, slowly discovered that it was actually caught in a scheme that had been in motion for hundreds of thousands of years... 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 21 Earth's Love Stories 地球恋爱往事 Earth's Romantic Past 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 22 AI Apocalypse: The Organization Sent Me to Be a Terminator AI灭世，组织派我去当终结者 Plot-driven, not a wish-fulfillment story, no formulaic tropes, no System, no leveling up, hard sci-fi, entirely handwritten. “This is the only way we can survive after being hunted by them for 200 years! We cower inside fortresses because there are no humans left outside them!” “Our mission is to use technology that has regressed to 1978 levels, armed with nothing but millet and rifles, to defeat an AI army that rivals the gods!” “Being the decisive pawn means holding the key to victory in huma 228Reads—Score—14d adds
- 23 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
- 24 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
- 25 Day of the Insect Swarm 虫潮之日 In 4277, the Five Permanent Members triggered a global technological revolution, rapidly depleting Earth’s resources and making space migration an urgent necessity. But the tightening of immigration policies left citizens who never qualified to emigrate increasingly resentful of their governments, eventually giving rise to international terrorist organizations. To counter this global threat, the New United Nations Army was formed. Yet no one expected that, not long after its founding, its greate 10Reads—Score—14d adds
- 26 The Three-Body Problem: Reborn Aboard the Natural Selection 三体：重生在自然选择号上 Zhang Xiaofan unexpectedly transmigrates. As luck would have it, he transmigrates onto the Natural Selection, just before it enters Forward Four. It's a bombshell from the start. What should he do? Will the story end before it even gets going? 139Reads—Score—14d adds
- 27 The Star Cage Era 星笼纪元 The speed-of-light barrier has turned the Solar System into a “stellar cage” humanity cannot escape. “A zoo!” The Solar System, humanity’s only home, is nothing more than a “protected habitat for a primitive civilization” or a “living museum for sociological study” run by the advanced civilization of the Starwatchers, the Torans. Humanity’s proud civilization, its brutal wars, its yearning for the stars... In the eyes of the Starwatchers, they are merely “data points” to be observed and stu 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 28 The Deep Space Era: Breaking Out of the Solar System 深空纪元：冲出太阳系 In the near future, as humanity ventures into space, multiple research bases are established on the Moon, ushering in a new era of interstellar colonization. Centered around China's Rainbow Bay Base, scientists from around the world compete to develop resources, conduct geological research, and advance technology on the lunar surface. The story follows Lin Xia, the base commander, and her team. They must face the challenges of surviving the Moon's harsh environment, including solar storms, anoma 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 29 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
- 30 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 77Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 31 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
- 32 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
- 33 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—14d adds
- 34 The Supreme Cosmic Overlord Hidden in a Mountain Range Somewhere in the South 隐藏在南方某山区的超级宇宙霸主 Hard sci-fi, cosmic conquest, an invincible protagonist, no angst, pure wish fulfillment. Lin Que, a young man from Blue Star, accidentally binds himself to a mutated AI called Yuer after a circuit malfunction. From then on, he crushes the universe with technology that is always two levels ahead. Starting out in a cave deep in the mountains, he establishes a Beast Taming Academy for the Yellow Race, wins over two elf beauties and the Insect Queen, hunts star-core behemoths, and ultimately become 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 35 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
- 36 The Dome's Limits 穹限 Originally titled Chenxing. If humanity in the future ever discovers the edge of the universe, please remember to let me know. Think of it as an anime. I dedicate this work to my hometown. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 37 Three-Star Diary 三星日记 Three-Star Diary 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 38 The End of Logic 逻辑终点 The value of π is no longer 3.14159... The speed of light in a vacuum begins to fluctuate. “F=ma” no longer holds true. An inexplicable “scientific aphasia” is quietly spreading across the Earth. The results of every basic physics experiment are becoming inconsistent, and mathematical constants are subtly shifting. Panic grips the global scientific community as every theory begins to “collapse and fail.” Is it an observational error? Has the universe itself entered a chaotic phase? Or is some wi 9Reads—Score—14d adds
- 39 Technology: There’s a Factory Inside Me 科技：我体内有一座加工厂 With his life nearing its end, Lin Chen was ready to die with regrets. But after swallowing a strange energy source, he discovered that it had fused with the cancer cells in his body, triggering an unexpected transformation. He suddenly developed an intense appetite for all kinds of machinery and technology. Phones and computers: eat! Cars: eat! Planes and rockets: eat! Oil and nuclear fuel: eat! And just like that, he became a godlike life-form capable of endlessly fusing with machines! He coul 3.9kReads6.2Score42514d adds
- 40 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 1.3kReads6.4Score10714d adds
- 41 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, 187Reads6.1Score—14d adds
- 42 Magnetic Edge 磁锋 Ever since Magnetic Peak Star was discovered last century, it has been a holy site that scholars and explorers have longed to visit. But the planet's magnetic field changes too violently. Any ship that approaches is torn apart by the powerful magnetic field, while instrument chips are burned out by sudden surges of voltage generated by its shifting magnetism. Even if anyone could make it down to the surface, excessive electromagnetic radiation would leave explorers with either radiation-induced 10Reads7.4Score114d adds
- 43 Fusion Dreams: Setting Sail for the Sea of Stars 核聚变幻想：星海起程 Fantasy becomes reality! An alien civilization has given me a cheat code, letting me reshape the world with my own hands! Tao Yu planned to graduate quietly, but he unexpectedly inherited alien technology and helped his country become the first to achieve controlled nuclear fusion! From then on, he starts a company, drives change, and makes his mark across several fields: The internet, livelihoods, public safety, the military industry, and more. But this is more than just his path to invincibili 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 44 A Technological Powerhouse: Starting with Upgrading a Plate of Shredded Potatoes 大国科技：从升级一盘土豆丝开始 [Cutting-Edge Technology + System + Technological Powerhouse + Patriotism + Livestreaming] After losing my job, I became popular by filming cooking videos. Then one day, the shredded potatoes I stir-fried activated a cutting-edge technology System! From the start, all I had was a file. The rest came from upgrading my skills. The wrench I made on a whim outperformed German imports by miles; I hand-crafted nuts on livestream and stood up to patent suppression from international giants! From “Handc —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 45 I Thought I Had Transmigrated, but It Turned Out I'd Become Immortal 我以为穿越了原来是永生了 Also known as The Immortal Human Project. [Sci-fi mystery] In 2096, Lin Shu unknowingly became an [Immortal Human] and lost all his memories. He was also implanted with the complete memories of neuroscientist Gu Zhixing from 2046. After regaining consciousness, he briefly believed he was Gu Zhixing, who had transmigrated from the past. With memories from fifty years ago and the subconscious mind of a modern person, Lin Shu is both a vessel for a “new human” of 2096 and the bearer of a backup of 31Reads—Score—14d adds
- 46 The Light of the Galactic Era 星河纪元之光 When time begins to run backward, who is the true sower? In 2045, on the far side of the moon, Chinese scientist Lin Su discovers a mysterious crystal that defies the laws of physics during a routine survey: the “Entropy Crystal.” It can reverse rust, heal wounds, and even turn back death itself. But every time someone touches it, humanity's memories are quietly rewritten. Lin Su's fiancée, Su Wan, becomes a “Resonator” during an experiment, as the memories of an ancient civilization pour into h —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 47 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
- 48 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 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 49 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 81Reads5.1Score914d adds
- 50 The Dark Firmament Era 黑穹纪元 My new work is here! You’re welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you’ll enjoy it. Your support motivates me to write, and I’ll do my best to tell every story well! 1Reads—Score—14d adds
