Best Science Fiction Published in 2025

So, highly recommend this one. I think that it was a little bit of a sleeper of the year and definitely deserves more attention.

I'm putting it here just because it was one of my absolute favorite books of the year. highly emotional. I love this book and really hit me at a personal level.

So, I really enjoyed this one. I think a lot of you will as well.

I just found this one to be very entertaining, but at the same time, again, I felt like I learned little pieces and nuggets about astronaut life that I didn't otherwise know despite reading a lot of books set in this general subgenre just because I find it really fascinating. So, highly recommend this one. Had a lot of fun with it.

In my mind, as I talked about this book recently, it's just a really good balance of having a great plot, really interesting world building in the background. You can tell the author has a love for science fiction as the elements that I love are woven throughout the story.

I do think it's a solid conclusion and definitely earns a place among my favorites of the year.

I think at this point, Adrian Shakoski has earned his own name as again an author who is both prolific without sacrificing the quality of his work. So again, you have these really interesting science fiction concepts woven through in the story, but at the same time, you have again deep characters, great banter, back and forth, exciting plot, suspense, and again, you're going to care deeply for the characters and what happens to them.

And again, this book I read quite early in the year, but it still is one that stuck with me and been the comparison that every other science fiction book that has come after has had to contend with. So in my mind, highly recommend if you share my interest in these type of stories.