Hitchhiker's Guide to Booze and Books

The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin follows astrophysicist Ye Wenjie, who after witnessing her father's death during China's Cultural Revolution, makes contact with an alien civilization from the Trisolaran system and invites them to Earth, believing humanity needs to be saved from itself. This hard science fiction masterpiece weaves together China's tumultuous political history with concepts from theoretical physics, exploring humanity's first contact with an alien species whose unpredictable three-sun system has driven them to seek a new home, our planet.

In this classic philosophical sci-fi novel by Ursula Le Guin, a brilliant physicist leaves his anarchist home world to share his revolutionary theory with a capitalist planet.

In this haunting speculative novel by Margaret Atwood, a lone survivor in a bioengineered wasteland unravels the story of love, ambition, and scientific hubris that led to humanity’s collapse.

In this gripping sci-fi novel by Iain Banks, a master strategist from a utopian society enters a deadly interstellar game where skill, politics, and morality collide in a high-stakes contest that could upend civilizations.