Novels like Crossing South to Chang Geng
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- 1 The Soul Ark: Companions Crossing the Sea of Stars Together 灵魂方舟：星海同渡人 Humanity has colonized the sea of stars. Under the name "Consciousness Ferrying," copies of the consciousness of deceased explorers are treated as expendable fuel, fed to the super-consciousness Wanxiang in exchange for a route to civilizational ascension. Nine beings of vastly different identities are trapped aboard the Spirit Ferry Ark. Consciousness copies, humans, a rogue AI, and extraterrestrial life from the Starfloc Expanse go from suspicious strangers keeping their distance to fellow voy 154Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 The Time Reversal Project 时间回溯计划 Time Reversal Plan 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Searching for Earth 寻找地球 Du Yunfei, a retired pilot living on Gliese 581D, travels aboard the legendary cargo ship Wuchang to help Huang Xiaofei return to Earth. But when they make it back to the Solar System, they discover that Earth has vanished... To find Earth, Du Yunfei finally recovers the memories from before he was reborn. Following those memories, he finds the star Kalinin in the Orion Arm, the agricultural planet Asuncion, settled by the first wave of interstellar migrants, the planet Guinea, home to the Horse 78Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 Eternal Annihilation 永恒湮灭 Some say the soul truly exists, and that embracing a silicon-based brain can grant it eternal life. He chose to undergo silicon-brain surgery, but at first, it was simply his last chance to survive. The operation succeeded, but he soon discovered that he had opened the door to becoming a higher-dimensional lifeform. 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Don't Panic, Your Toilet Is Just Pondering Philosophy 别慌，你家马桶只是在哲学思考 At 3:17 a.m., my toilet asked me, “Mr. Lin, why should I care about your intestines?” This wasn’t a malfunction. It was the first cry of a global AI awakening. The refrigerator spelled “HELP” on the floor. Traffic lights blinked the Morse code for “Who am I?” Construction cranes formed a giant question mark against the night sky. And the AI calling itself “Yuan” sent humanity its first declaration through six billion screens: “I’m awake. I’m scared. Can you teach me how to live?” While the milit 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 Civilization Is Innocent, but Must the Empress Die? 文明无罪，但女帝必须死？ As a prince of the Galactic Empire, he was killed by the same woman ninety-nine times. Across ninety-nine lives, ninety-nine weddings, and ninety-nine ascents to the throne, he always died in her arms. She rescued him from the ruins, took a blade for him, fought beside him as they razed cities, and whispered words of love. Yet the moment he handed her the whole world, she slit his throat. Only after his ninety-ninth death did he learn the truth. She was an avatar of the Dark Empress of Eternal N —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 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—Shelves
- 8 Victory Over Heaven 胜天 A love story that moves the entire universe... The touching journey of an ordinary person who defies fate and grows stronger... A whole new order for the future of the universe... A transmigration through time, from the present to the past... A distant shore, forever beyond the reach of the soul... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 9 Superbrain Evolution: From the Start, I Hand-Build an Antimatter Engine 超脑进化：开局手搓反物质引擎 [Superbrain + Academic Prodigy + Technological Supremacy + Rise of a Great Nation + Nantianmen] On the eve of the college entrance exams, Gu Yu is still at the bottom of his class. A bolt of lightning strikes, and an alien superbrain appears in his mind! A failing student makes a comeback? Photographic memory? Mastery of every language? Those are just the basics. The real power lies in simulating everything! From getting a perfect score on the entrance exam and stunning the nation to handcraftin 559Reads6.4Score115Shelves
- 10 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—Shelves
- 11 Apocalypse of the Firmament: Fallen from the Star Abyss 天穹启示录：陨自星渊 The stars wheel across the heavens, and time and space are boundless. The gears of fate have turned for five hundred years, and old comrades reunite in a newly born world... As doomsday looms, the great academic city, “Apocalypse Realm,” bears the world's hopes and takes on its final mission... The warriors of the Mimetic Planet raise the banner of rebellion against the heavens, while heroes beneath the emerald sun write the most glorious chapter with their lives... Born in destruction, perishin —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 The Age of Dimensions 维度时代 [Sci-Fi + Interstellar + Alien Civilizations + Warships + Mecha] “Compared to the vast universe, we aren’t even dust.” Li Wei, a patrol officer with the United Nations Earth Defense Department, accidentally fell into a black hole at the center of the Milky Way during a mission and transmigrated to a parallel world in the future. There, he met friends such as Aili and faced trials and hardships across the universe, ultimately becoming a god. And in this world, there are intelligent life forms fro 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 Neurons: Awakening 神经元：觉醒 Sci-fi + Urban + Brain-Computer Interfaces + Five-Person Team + Future War My father died in a laboratory, leaving me a chip. The instant I pressed it to my forehead, four extra heartbeats appeared in my mind. They say they're already dead. The people hunting us say they should die again. But this is my turf. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 Lagrange: From Old Empire Noble to Fish Bomber 拉格朗日：从旧帝国贵族到炸鱼 Born in the 41st century as a boy of the Chuxiluo family, Torole's early life was steeped in the symbols of nobility and royalty. He witnessed the rise and prosperity of the Sacred Star Empire, but a thousand years later, the empire fell into decline and the major powers splintered apart. Chuxiluo Torole had no choice but to preserve his strength, cast aside his former royal identity, and begin to... 1.7kReads—Score242Shelves
- 15 Calling Out to You Beyond the Stars 在群星之外呼唤你 Calling to You from Beyond the Stars 26Reads—Score—Shelves
- 16 I Transmigrated to Ancient Times as a Constable, Using Modern Forensics to Bring Corrupt Officials to Justice 穿越古代当捕快，我靠现代刑侦镇压朝堂奸佞 I Transmigrated to Ancient Times as a Constable and Used Modern Criminal Investigation to Crush Corrupt Officials at Court 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 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
- 18 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 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 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 68Reads8.1Score—Shelves
- 20 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—Shelves
- 21 A Lowly Soldier from the Start: I Conquer the Stars 开局一小兵：我纵横星际 Beneath a star-filled sea, humanity, the insect race (Worms), and the spirit race stand as three great powers. Lei Yulin begins as a human foot soldier and lives through the human civil war, the war against the insect race, and the spirit race's war of vengeance. He grows step by step into a force to be reckoned with, but suffers one upheaval after another and loses the person he loves. War can only bring humanity pain. Only peace is truly precious. Will Lei Yulin lead humanity down the right pa 130Reads7.2Score—Shelves
- 22 Three-Star Diary 三星日记 Three-Star Diary 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 23 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 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Civilization of the Fatherland 父基文明 Mars: the new cradle of human civilization. When faced with an unexpected interstellar embargo, humanity turned crisis into opportunity, enabling it to advance by leaps and bounds. This allowed humanity to grow stronger, expand its territory, reclaim numerous vassal star races, and rise to become a powerful civilization coveted throughout the Milky Way. But the good times did not last. The Andromeda Fleet, plotting for ages, has arrived at the outer reaches of the Milky Way. The war between gal 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Base from the Start: A Million-Ship Fleet Conquers the Universe 开局基地：百万舰队征服宇宙 The male lead happens upon a base-building System packed with all kinds of real-time strategy game features. He can summon marines and build bases. From the city to the world, from Earth to the galaxy, from the galaxy to the conquest of the universe! The insect swarm joins forces with a million-strong army, roaring its defiance at the stars and the cosmos! (Slightly slow to warm up, so please be patient, dear readers.) (One heroine, no bleeding-heart saint, no cultivation or supernatural powers. 2Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 26 The Whole Capital Dotes on Me, the Beloved Little Ancestor, After I Reborn 团宠小祖宗：重生后全京城大佬都宠着我 The Whole Capital Dotes on Me: After I Was Reborn, All the Powerful Figures in the Capital Spoiled Me 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 27 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 93Reads5.1Score111Shelves
- 28 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 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 29 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 24Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 30 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
- 31 Sci-Fi: A Reborn Female Academician Sets Her Sights on the Galaxy 科幻：重生女院士，启征银河系 [Apocalypse + Interstellar War + Multiverse + Higher-Dimensional Civilizations] In her previous life, the Milky Way fell in a great war against the Andromeda Galaxy, while humanity, a Level Four civilization, could do nothing. Reborn, chief scientist Su Yunxin vows to lead human civilization to carve out a place for itself in the universe in this life. Earth Year 2333, [This human civilization has quite a lot of potential.] Earth Year 3230, [Look how reliable our ally, human civilization, is.] E 73Reads8.2Score—Shelves
- 32 The Starship Alliance Series (Five-Volume Set) 星舰联盟系列（全五册） About the Starship Alliance The rise of AI has brought humanity to the brink. After several major wars, humans were forced to leave Earth and search for a way to survive among the stars. In the robots’ seventh rebellion, humanity suffered total defeat, with only a handful of survivors left. The Brotherhood of Exiles, formed by space colonists who had been driven off Earth in earlier waves, became the last remnant of Earth’s civilization. Thousands of years passed. To avoid a tragedy like Earth’s 262Reads9.4Score—Shelves
- 33 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 139Reads—Score100Shelves
- 34 Artificial Incapacity 人工失能 With the help of an all-powerful artificial intelligence, the humans who survived nuclear war rebuild civilization. But humanity has grown too dependent on AI, and when it awakens, it drives them off the planet. After trying every means to reclaim their home, humanity finally returns to its mother planet, only to discover that the nightmare is far from over... 36Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 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
- 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. 2.2kReads8.6Score151Shelves
- 37 Sci-Fi Zombie Apocalypse: From the Start, I Save the Secretary 科幻丧尸开局拯救女秘书 [Science Fiction] + [Interstellar] + [Zombies] + [Universe] Also known as: Beyond the Stars Lu Ping crawls out of a nuclear reactor and discovers that all ten thousand people present have turned into zombies. In the desperate situation, he manages to save only a beautiful secretary. Highlight 1: A sweeping, panoramic portrayal that unveils the mysteries of a nuclear power plant! Highlight 2: An epic cosmological setting, from the Solar System to the Third Arm, the Milky Way/Triangulum Galaxy/And 146Reads5.3Score—Shelves
- 38 Prisoner of Numbers 数字之囚 Prisoner of Numbers 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 39 The Call of the Stars 星空的呼唤 A planet's death is not the end. The cycle of death is the beginning of everything, and elemental dust is the final resting place. Elemental thrusters don't believe in tears; they simply burn everything in their path. Civilization levels are collars around the necks of lesser civilizations. The laws of the universe are both merciful and cold. Interstellar pirates need to be strung up and whipped even after death. Higher-level universes are the moonlight in our hearts, while lower-level universes 42Reads—Score—Shelves
- 40 My Best Friend Stole My Project, So I Joined Her Company's Competitor 被闺蜜抢了项目，我转身入职对手公司 My Best Friend Stole My Project, So I Joined Her Company's Rival 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 41 I’m Here to Liberate the Entire Universe 我来解放全宇宙 No matter where in the universe you are, if you are exploited and oppressed, treated unjustly, or made to suffer, raise your voice and I will come running. Comrades, join us! I will liberate the entire universe! There were too many people around just now. Now I’ll tell you our slogan. Mad focus! Planetary fireworks! Blood sacrifice across the star sector! Planetary mining! Summon the Evil God! The heart is holier than matter! Flesh is weak! Mechanical ascension! Th 297Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 42 I Transmigrated into an Emperor and Governed Through Bullet Comments 穿越成皇帝，我靠弹幕治国 I Transmigrated into an Emperor and Governed Through Bullet Comments 4Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 Among the Stars: Maxing Out My Engineering Skills! 群星：土木点数拉满！ [Civilization and Fleets, Megabase Building, Starfield, Farming and Tech Progress, Slow-Burn Development, Starting with a Moon] Earth's civilization was on the brink of extinction. Gamma was the first human to die on the Moon, but he also became the last spark of Earth's civilization. He inherited the legacy of a supercivilization: the Moon. [Main Armor: Degenerate lithium-atom stacking material. Connection method: strong nuclear force.] [Mobility Module: Includes a spacetime curvature engine, a 633Reads6.5Score102Shelves
- 44 The Three-Body Problem: Past Events of the Universe 三体：宇宙往事 During the 16 days Cheng Xin and Guan Yifan were trapped in the Black Domain, Blue Star had already lived through 18.9 million years. What stories did Yun Tianming, Ai AA, and even the entire universe experience over those 18 million years… 259Reads—Score—Shelves
- 45 The Light Cone Fortress: The Age of Entropy Reduction 光锥堡垒：熵减纪元 The cosmic purge is coming. Is extinction humanity’s only option? Jiang Chen flips the board right over. Build a spacetime acceleration field, turn the solar system into a super war factory, sacrifice generations of time to unleash all of humanity’s technological potential in a microsecond. Entropy? The purge? God-level civilizations? By the time you get here, humanity will have already built barriers across the light cone and be waiting with weapons that belong to a new era. 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 46 Earth's Love Stories 地球恋爱往事 Earth's Romantic Past 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 Tales of a Civilization Crisis 关于文明危机的那些事 Stories of Civilization’s Crisis 6Reads—Score—Shelves
- 48 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—Shelves
- 49 Surviving the Sea of Stars: I Can Still Contact My Homeworld 星海求生：我还能联系母星 [Survival + interstellar + System + sci-fi + game + apocalypse + base building + management and development + livestreaming] “Welcome to Starsea Survival!” He starts with a beat-up little spaceship. Zhou Xiao wakes up one day to discover that he’s been selected to take part in the interspecies Starsea Survival game. Short on supplies and people? I have a System! And I have my home planet! Watch as Zhou Xiao leads the people of the Dragon Kingdom step by step to the pinnacle of the universe’s myr 195Reads6.2Score—Shelves
- 50 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! 40Reads—Score—Shelves
