Space is vast—and so is our selection of teen science fiction titles! We have books with epic space adventures, even more epic space battles, espionage, robots, cool tech, and foreign worlds.
Compiled by:
Sam O., Fern S.
Araña and Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow(Young Adult Fiction - Y Segura)
Anya was a normal teenager until she was gifted with spiderlike abilities, becoming Araña. When Anya is tossed across the century and stranded in Nueva York in 2099, Miguel O'Hara, Nueva York's Spider-Man, is her only hope of getting home.
Pet(Young Adult Fiction – Y Emezi)
In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting Jam's mother created.
The Art Thieves(Young Adult Fiction - Y Rogers)
It's the year 2052. Stevie is a Cherokee girl trying to save up enough money to go to college. The world around her is in a cycle of drought and superstorms, but people get by. When a mysterious boy shows up at Stevie's museum saying that he's from the future, she refuses to believe him. But soon, she'll have no other choice.
Rebel Seoul(Young Adult Fiction - Y Oh)
In 2199, Jaewon is partnered with super soldier Tera, but their evolving love is threatened when Jaewon must choose among conflicting loyalties: to the totalitarian government that promises to end all war, the nationalist rebels his father followed, or the crime syndicate staging a coup.
Aurora Rising(Young Adult Fiction - Y Kaufman)
Told in separate voices, Tyler Jones, top graduate of Aurora Academy, and a group of misfits and troublemakers embark on their first mission with Auri, a stowaway from the distant past.
The Singular Life of Aria Patel(Young Adult Fiction - Y Ahmed)
Aria finds herself suddenly falling through parallel universes and can't explain why she's been waking up in a new reality almost every day. As Aria desperately attempts to find a way home, she eventually ends up stuck in a parallel world very similar to her own.
Between Sun and Shadow(Young Adult Fiction – Y Genn)
Kori struggles to be a dutiful heiress to the Daylands, a post-cataclysmic society reliant on chip implants to retain memory. With a strict mother, Kori has only one friend, Aspect, an industrial robot she's repurposed. Determined to awaken sentience in her metal companion, Kori enters enemy territory while hunting for a memory that might work.
Skyward(Young Adult - Y Sanders)
When a long-term attack against her world by the alien Krell escalates, Spensa's dream of becoming a pilot may come true, despite her deceased father being labeled a deserter.
Bound by Stars(Young Adult Fiction - Y Starlin)
Raised in the dust-ridden ruins of Earth, Weslie is thrust into the gleaming luxury of Mars's elite. Jupiter, the golden boy of Mars's high society, is bound by a future he never chose. Their reluctant partnership was supposed to be a one-off assignment. But when Boundless veers off course, love won't be enough to save them.
A Song of Salvation(Young Adult Fiction – Y Dow)
Zaira is the god Indigo reborn, whose song created the universe and unified people across galaxies to banish Ozvios, the god of destruction. The Ilori Emperor wants to sacrifice her to Ozvios, unless she escapes and finds Wesley, the boy prophesized to help her defeat Ozvios and the Ilori.
The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee(Young Adult Fiction - Y Oh)
When Mina Lee woke up, she didn't expect to be trapped in the story she created. She also didn't expect to come face to face with Jin, the boy of her dreams, and discover a conspiracy involving an evil corporation. Now it’s up to her to save everyone, even if it means losing Jin forever.
Star Splitter(Young Adult Fiction - Y Kirby)
Jessica is about to be reunited with her parents to join their research assignment on a planet almost 14 lightyears from Earth. But when she wakes up, her landing unit has crashed on the planet's surface, the corridors empty and covered in bloody handprints. And outside are the carefully, and recently, marked graves of strangers.
Gearbreakers(Young Adult Fiction - Y Mikuta)
In an age of 100-foot-tall mechanical deities run by a tyrannical regime, two teenage girls on opposite sides of a war discover they're fighting for a common purpose—and falling for each other.
A Time Traveler's History of Tomorrow(Young Adult Fiction - Y Kulper)
Gen is a science prodigy and can turn herself invisible. Ash can manipulate time. They cross paths at the 1934 Chicago World's Fair, where Gen's project causes an explosion. Ash tries to avert catastrophe by rewinding time, but instead transports them to 1893. They find themselves trapped with no idea how to return to their own time.
If All the Stars Go Dark(Young Adult Fiction - Y Prince)
Forced to work together under Legion orders, Keller and Lament team up with a crew of specialists to investigate a mysterious visionary who can predict catastrophes. They realize there's more to the story than meets the eye. With threats mounting and secrets unfolding, they'll need to trust one another in order to stop the dangers at play.
Titan of the Stars(Young Adult Fiction - Y Johnsto)
Celeste is optimistic for the promises of this new journey from Earth to Mars. Dominic is already feeling anxious about the life his dad has chosen for him. Ancient aliens have been brought onto the Titan as well, and stored in display cases. Until an act of sabotage releases them into the ship, with zero discrimination for human life.
Iron Widow(Young Adult Fiction - Y Zhao)
The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain.
Victories Greater Than Death(Young Adult Fiction - Y Anders)
Tired of hiding in obscurity on Earth, Tina, the human clone of a brilliant alien tactician, pursues her destiny in space, but success is elusive until Tina and her best friend Rachel assemble a ragtag crew of humans and set out to save all the worlds.
Leviathan(Young Adult Fiction – Y Westerf)
It's the cusp of World War I, and all the European powers are arming up. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines. The British Darwinists employ fabricated animals as their weaponry. With the Great War brewing, Alek's and Deryn's paths cross in the most unexpected way.
Want(Young Adult Fiction - Y Pon)
Jason Zhou is trying to survive in Taipei, a city plagued by pollution and viruses, but when he discovers the elite are using their wealth to evade the deadly effects, he knows he must do whatever is necessary to fight the corruption and save his city.
Mirage(Young Adult Fiction - Y Daud)
Amani dreams of what life was like before the brutal Vathek empire occupation. But when adventure comes for Amani, it is not what she expects: she is kidnapped and brought to the royal palace, where she discovers that she is to become a body double for the hated princess Maram.
War Girls(Young Adult Fiction – Y Onyebuc)
The year is 2172. Climate change and nuclear disasters have rendered much of earth unlivable. Only the lucky ones have escaped to space colonies in the sky. Two sisters, Onyii and Ify, dream of more. Their lives have been marked by violence and political unrest, still, they dream of peace.
Moongarden(Young Adult Fiction - Y Barry)
Crumbling under the pressure at her elite school on the moon, misfit Myra Hodger discovers a lab full of toxic plants and uses her botanical magic to weed out its secrets, but quickly discovers some will do anything to take those secrets to the grave.
Warcross(Young Adult Fiction – Y Lu)
For the millions who log in every day, Warcross isn't just a game, it's a way of life. Struggling to make ends meet, teenage hacker Emika Chen works as a bounty hunter, tracking down players who bet on the game illegally. But the bounty hunting world is a competitive one, and survival has not been easy.
Once & Future(Young Adult Fiction - Y Capetta)
The Arthurian legend told in outer space, with King Arthur reincarnated as 17-year-old Ari, a female king whose quest is to stop a tyrannical corporate government, aided by a teenaged Merlin.
Across a Field of Starlight(Graphic Novels - GN Delliqu Across A Field Of Starlight)
Lu and Fassen are from different worlds and separate solar systems, so when the war on Fassen's world invades Lu's peaceful home, they find themselves at the forefront of a battle they hoped would never happen.
Gone(Graphic Novels - GN Jock Gone)
On an impoverished planet the best place to be is GONE, and that's exactly where Abi wants to be. Along with her friends, Abi stows away on a space-liner for a chance at a better life. Abi suddenly finds herself branded a saboteur as she struggles to evade the ship's deadly crew and stay alive.
Cosmoknights Vol. 1(Graphic Novels - GN Cosmoknights v. 1)
When a charismatic pair of off-world gladiators show up on Pan's doorstep, she finds that life may not be as small as she thought. On the run and off the galactic grid, Pan discovers the astonishing secrets of her neo-medieval world and the intoxicating possibility of burning it all down.
On a Sunbeam(Graphic Novels - GN Walden On A Sunbeam)
In two interwoven timelines, a ragtag crew travels to the deepest reaches of space, rebuilding beautiful, broken structures to piece the past together and two girls meet in boarding school and fall deeply in love, only to learn the pain of loss.
Descender Book One: Tin Stars(Graphic Novels - GN Descender v. 1)
One young robot's struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet.
Space Boy Volume 1(Graphic Novels - GN Stephen McCranies Space Boy v. 1)
Amy lives on a colony in deep space, but when her father loses his job the family moves back to Earth, where she has to adapt to heavier gravity, a new school, and a strange boy with no flavor.