Find your next SF/F read by mood

Samuel R. Delanystandalone novel1968

About quests and revenge.

“The plot concerns the spaceship captain Lorq Von Ray's search for a nova, which will produce the essential power source Illyrion, and his vendetta with the Red family, who seek to kill him.”
from the catalogue

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxyUniverse

universe18 books1979

Humor, funny in tone.

“The Earth is scheduled for demolition to make way for a hyperspace bypass, and honestly, nobody filed the paperwork properly.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy →

includes Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently

GaeanSeries

series3 books1979

completed

About aliens, set in outer planets & moons.

“The Gaea Trilogy consists of three science fiction novels by John Varley.”
from the catalogue

Start with Titan →

UpliftUniverse

universe13 books1980

About uplift and aliens.

“No species, the Galactics insist, ever climbs to sapience alone.”
from the catalogue

Start with Sundiver →

includes Uplift Storm, Uplift

Genesis QuestSeries

series2 books1986

completed

About aliens.

“Aliens receive radio signals containing full DNA info, and reconstruct humanity.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Genesis Quest →

Big PlanetSeries

series2 books1952

completed

About survival.

“Jack Vance's 1957 novel — an early landmark of the fully realized planetary-romance setting — got a single sequel decades later, Showboat World, revisiting the same world without continuing Glystra's story.”
from the catalogue

Start with Big Planet →

More like Tuning the Symphony