Best Sci-Fi Books 2025

Looking for the best new sci-fi books of 2025? This year brings an outstanding lineup of science fiction novels, blending interstellar adventures, dystopian futures, time travel, and speculative visions of humanity.

Whether you're into space operas or literary sci-fi, there’s something here for every fan.

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Among the top new sci-fi books is Future’s Edge by Gareth L. Powell, a compelling space opera that continues his legacy of captivating storytelling. Nicholas Binge’s Dissolution combines science fiction and horror, making it one of the year’s most anticipated novels. Fans of time-travel tales will love Kaliane Bradley’s The Ministry of Time, a gripping story of espionage and temporal physics.

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Review: Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan

A sweeping, romantic fantasy about sacrifice, love, and the weight of destiny, Immortal builds on the mythic beauty of Daughter of the Moon Goddess while standing powerfully on its own.

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Review: The Ministry of Time

A melancholy, clever, deeply human time-travel novel about bureaucracy, romance, and the people history forgets.

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Review: Space Brooms!

If you’ve ever wished that Hitchhiker’s Guide had more janitors and slightly more laser cows, Space Brooms! might be your new favourite thing.

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In Ascension by Martin MacInnes

What if the mysteries of the deep sea led us to discoveries far beyond Earth? In Martin MacInnes’s In Ascension, readers embark on a journey that begins in the ocean’s darkest depths and stretches into the vast unknown of space.

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