Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > First Contact
Monthly median sales (top 30)
$22,139
The median book price
$5.99
Bestseller's daily sales
541
50th book's daily sales
37
Average number of pages per book
358
Monopoly/Olygopoly detected
Yes
Performance tracking
Competitiveness
Volume sales
Book price
Volatility
New releases
Self published
Matching KDP categories
fiction > science fiction > hard science fiction
80.58%
fiction > science fiction > alien contact
79.77%
juvenile > fiction > science fiction
73.85%
fiction > science fiction > steampunk
73.85%
Keyword requirement
contact, science fiction, dystopian
Best selling keywords
Median title & subtitle length is 5 words:
- The Object: Hard Science Fiction
- All These Worlds: Bobiverse, Book 3
- Barbarian Lover (Ice Planet Barbarians Book 3)
- Forward Command (Galaxy Bridge Book 1)
- Dubious Risks (Gate Ghosts Book 12)
- Indie success
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10%
- Volatility
- New releases
- KDP Select
95%
25%
56.67%
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Front-page bestsellers:
Book title | Author | Publisher | Absolute rank | Monthly sales volume | Price | Amazon stars | Amazon reviews | |
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1 | The Three-Body Problem | Cixin Liu | Macmillan Audio | 10 | $1,061,183 | $17.71 | 42,814 | |
2 | The Three-Body Problem | Cixin Liu | Tor Books | 47 | $200,744 | $10.59 | 42,733 | |
3 | The Dark Forest | Cixin Liu | Macmillan Audio | 105 | $407,037 | $30.54 | 26,360 | |
4 | Death's End | Cixin Liu | Macmillan Audio | 257 | $219,038 | $29.52 | 20,505 | |
5 | We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Bobiverse, Book 1 | Dennis E. Taylor | Audible Originals | 516 | $77,243 | $17.46 | 24,439 | |
6 | Children of Time | Adrian Tchaikovsky | Audible Studios | 568 | N/A | $-1.00 | 41,068 | |
7 | The Object: Hard Science Fiction | Joshua T. Calvert | Self published | 602 | $18,862 | $4.99 | 1,947 | |
8 | Defiance of the Fall 2: A LitRPG Adventure | TheFirstDefier | Aethon Audio | 655 | $27,293 | $7.99 | 8,686 | |
9 | Ice Planet Barbarians | Ruby Dixon | Ruby Dixon | 731 | $8,790 | $2.99 | 33,145 | |
10 | Three-Body Problem Boxed Set: The Dark Forest, Death's End (The Three-Body Problem Series) | Cixin Liu | Tor Books | 753 | $100,084 | $36.85 | 3,085 | |
11 | All These Worlds: Bobiverse, Book 3 | Dennis E. Taylor | Audible Originals | 1,038 | $61,645 | $26.21 | 18,767 | |
12 | Defiance of the Fall 12: A LitRPG Adventure | TheFirstDefier | Aethon Books | 1,057 | $18,568 | $7.99 | 2,957 | |
13 | There's No Space Like Home (Bob and Nikki Book 44) | Jerry Boyd | (March 5, 2024) | 1,188 | $6,530 | $2.99 | 1,230 | |
14 | Barbarian Alien: A SciFi Alien Romance (Ice Planet Barbarians Book 2) | Ruby Dixon | Ruby Dixon | 1,404 | $8,043 | $3.99 | 20,038 | |
15 | Barbarian Lover (Ice Planet Barbarians Book 3) | Ruby Dixon | Ruby Dixon | 1,935 | $6,591 | $3.99 | 15,800 |
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
Soon to be a Netflix Original series!“War of the Worlds for the 21st century.” (Wall Street Journal)The Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking listeners to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.The Remembrance of Earth's Past Trilogy:The Three-Body ProblemThe Dark ForestDeath's EndOther books:Ball Lightning Supernova EraTo Hold Up The Sky (forthcoming) Read more
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
Soon to be a Netflix Original Series!“War of the Worlds for the 21st century.” – Wall Street JournalThe Three-Body Problem is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience the Hugo Award-winning phenomenon from China's most beloved science fiction author, Liu Cixin.Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the signal and plans to invade Earth. Meanwhile, on Earth, different camps start forming, planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt, or to fight against the invasion. The result is a science fiction masterpiece of enormous scope and vision.The Three-Body Problem SeriesThe Three-Body ProblemThe Dark ForestDeath's EndOther BooksBall Lightning Supernova EraTo Hold Up the Sky Read more
The Dark Forest
Cixin Liu
Soon to be a Netflix original series!"Wildly imaginative." (President Barack Obama on The Three-Body Problem trilogy)This near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking listeners to experience this multiple-award-winning phenomenon from Cixin Liu, China's most beloved science fiction author. In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion - in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human collaborators may have been defeated, but the presence of the sophons, the subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information, means that Earth's defense plans are totally exposed to the enemy. Only the human mind remains a secret. This is the motivation for the Wallfacer Project, a daring plan that grants four men enormous resources to design secret strategies, hidden through deceit and misdirection from Earth and Trisolaris alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists, but the fourth is a total unknown. Luo Ji, an unambitious Chinese astronomer and sociologist, is baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallfacer that Trisolaris wants dead.The Remembrance of Earth's Past TrilogyThe Three-Body ProblemThe Dark ForestDeath's EndOther booksBall Lightning Supernova EraTo Hold Up the Sky (forthcoming) Read more
Death's End
Cixin Liu
Soon to be a Netflix original series!“The War of the Worlds for the 21st century...packed with a sense of wonder.” (Wall Street Journal)The New York Times best-selling conclusion to a tour de force near-future adventure trilogy from China's best-selling and beloved science fiction writer.With The Three-Body Problem, English-speaking listeners got their first chance to hear China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. The Three-Body Problem was released to great acclaim including coverage in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and reading list picks by Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg. It was also won the Hugo and Nebula Awards, making it the first translated novel to win a major SF award.Now this epic trilogy concludes with Death's End. Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge. With human science advancing daily and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations will soon be able to co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But the peace has also made humanity complacent.Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the early 21st century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings with her knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the beginning of the Trisolar Crisis, and her very presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle?The Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy:The Three-Body ProblemThe Dark ForestDeath's EndOther books:Ball Lightning Supernova EraTo Hold Up The Sky (forthcoming) Read more
We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Bobiverse, Book 1
Dennis E. Taylor
There's a reason We Are Legion (We Are Bob) was named Audible's Best Science Fiction Book of 2016: Its irresistibly irreverent wit! Bob Johansson has just sold his software company for a small fortune and is looking forward to a life of leisure. The first item on his to-do list: Spending his newfound windfall. On an urge to splurge, he signs up to have his head cryogenically preserved in case of death. Then he gets himself killed crossing the street. Waking up 117 years later, Bob discovers his mind has been uploaded into a sentient space probe with the ability to replicate itself. Bob and his clones are on a mission to find new homes for humanity and boldly go where no Bob has gone before. Dennis E. Taylor’s hilarious novel sets the stage for the magnificent performance of Ray Porter, who revels in the brave new world of corpsicles, artificial intelligence, interstellar space probes, and space colonization in tantalizing detail. We Are Legion (We Are Bob) is the first installment in the blockbuster Audible Original Bobiverse series - which has sold more than one million copies. Read more
Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Adrian Tchaikovksy's critically acclaimed stand-alone novel Children of Time is the epic story of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Who will inherit this new Earth? The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age - a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare. Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth? Read more
The Object: Hard Science Fiction
Joshua T. Calvert
Deep space holds secrets……and one astronomer for NASA has found a big one.But it’s not what she thinks.Dr. Melody Adams, a physicist at the Gemini North Observatory, was studying Pluto in the telescope data and it struck her as odd. The numbers didn’t make sense. Could there be an extraterrestrial object in our solar system?She followed protocol.The scientific community didn’t believe her.And before she knew what happened, her career was over.The day that changed Melody’s life was like any other over the previous two years. She’d found she had a gift for writing and her career as an author had almost healed the pain of losing her job. When the Secret Service rang her bell, everything changed.Something was nearing Saturn……and it was slowing down.Had she been right about the object?You’ll love this hard science fiction novel because Melody is about to find out that everything she knew about space and time was wrong.Get it now. Read more
Defiance of the Fall 2: A LitRPG Adventure
TheFirstDefier
Earth is fast crumbling from the pressures of not only the invaders, but from nature itself....Zac has managed to secure his island for the time being, growing into a true powerhouse through his endless struggles. However, becoming the strongest man in the world does not come without complications.A target has been placed on his back. Natives, aliens - everyone has their eye on the throne. Even the System itself seems intent on forcing him into one desperate situation after another.Zac knows he is running against the clock in his mission to find his family, prompting him to set out to New Washington in search of answers. Meanwhile, powerful beings from a long-forgotten cult gather in the dark, their goal unknown.Don't miss book two of the hit Defiance of the Fall LitRPG series with over 20 million views on Royal Road.About the series: Jump into a System Apocalypse story that merges LitRPG elements with Eastern cultivation. Class systems, skill systems, endless choices for progression: It has everything fans of the genre love. Explore a vast universe full of mystery, adventure, danger, and even aliens - where even a random passer-by might hold the power of a god. Follow Zac as he struggles to stake out a unique path to power as a mortal in a world full of cultivators. Read more
Ice Planet Barbarians
Ruby Dixon
You'd think being abducted by aliens would be the worst thing that could happen to me. And you'd be wrong. Because now, the aliens are having ship trouble, and they've left their cargo of human women - including me - on an ice planet. And the only native inhabitant I've met? He's big, horned, blue, and really, really has a thing for me... Read more
Soon to be a Netflix Original Series!The Three-Body Problem Boxed Set contains all three volumes of Hugo Award-winning author Cixin Liu's bestselling science fiction trilogy--The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, and Death's End--translated by Ken Liu.A secret military group sends signals into space in hopes of establishing contact with aliens -- and succeeds.Picking up their signal is an alien civilization on the brink of destruction who now readies to invade Earth.News of the coming invasion divides humanity like never before. Some want to help the superior beings take over a world they see as corrupt. Others prepare to fight the invasion at all cost. The Three Body Problem trilogy is a ground-breaking saga of enormous scope and vision.“The War of the Worlds for the twenty-first century . . . Packed with a sense of wonder.” ―The Wall Street Journal “A meditation on technology, progress, morality, extinction, and knowledge that doubles as a cosmos- in-the-balance thriller.” ―NPR Read more
All These Worlds: Bobiverse, Book 3
Dennis E. Taylor
The epic and highly anticipated conclusion to the listener-favorite series that had countless Audible listeners (and employees) hooked from the very first Bob - featuring, as always, a flawless performance from the inimitable Ray Porter. Being a sentient spaceship really should be more fun. But after spreading out through space for almost a century, Bob and his clones just can't stay out of trouble. They've created enough colonies so humanity shouldn't go extinct. But political squabbles have a bad habit of dying hard, and the Brazilian probes are still trying to take out the competition. And the Bobs have picked a fight with an older, more powerful species with a large appetite and a short temper. Still stinging from getting their collective butts kicked in their first encounter with the Others, the Bobs now face the prospect of a decisive final battle to defend Earth and its colonies. But the Bobs are less disciplined than a herd of cats, and some of the younger copies are more concerned with their own local problems than defeating the Others. Yet salvation may come from an unlikely source. A couple of eighth-generation Bobs have found something out in deep space. All it will take to save the Earth and perhaps all of humanity is for them to get it to Sol - unless the Others arrive first. All These Worlds is the third installment in the blockbuster Audible Original Bobiverse series - which has sold more than one million copies. Read more
Defiance of the Fall 12: A LitRPG Adventure
TheFirstDefier
Only the strong will survive when fate gathers. The war against the Kan'Tanu is drawing closer, and Zac can't wait any longer. Only by stepping into D-grade does he have a chance to keep Earth safe.Fusing life and death is thought impossible, but Zac has no choice but to achieve a miracle. And if there's one place where he might succeed, it's the Perennial Vastness.The mysterious realm holds unique opportunities and resources. A final opportunity to power up. However, the fifth pillar of the System is emerging, and an Eternal Heritage is up for grabs. The ancient factions are willing to go to any length to claim the prize.Zac's ascent to Hegemony is bound to be a bumpy one.Book 12 of the hit Defiance of the Fall LitRPG Series is here. Grab your copy today! Read more
The Gene scrambles to help Milly. Watch as they get through the obstacles to bring her home safe. Bob and Nikki decide to finish their shore leave on Earth. A nice relaxing few days in the Holler, right? You know better by now, don’t you? Come find out what all happens. Read more
Twelve humans are left stranded on a wintry alien planet. I’m one of them. Yay, me. In order to survive, we have to take on a symbiont that wants to rewire our bodies to live in this brutal place. I like to call it a cootie. And my cootie’s a jerk, because it also thinks I’m the mate to the biggest, surliest alien of the group.--BARBARIAN ALIEN is a sequel to ICE PLANET BARBARIANS. You do not have to read both in order to understand the plot, but the story will be richer if you do! Read more
As one of the few humans stranded on the ice planet, I should be happy that I have a new home. Human women are treasured here, and one alien in particular has made it clear that he wants me. It's hard to push away the sexy, flirtatious Aehako, when all I want to do is grab him by his horns and insist he take me to his furs.But I've got a terrible secret - the aliens who abducted me are back, and thanks to the translator in my ear, they can find me. My presence here endangers everyone...but can I give up my new life and the man I want more than anything? Read more
'Resonance' is supposed to be a dream - that's when your soulmate is chosen for you. And everyone on the ice planet has hooked up with a big, hunky soulmate of their own...except me. So do I want a mate? Heck yeah. More than anything, all I've ever wanted is to be loved by someone.Except that the soulmate chosen for me? My least favorite person on the darn ice planet. Haeden's the most cranky, disapproving, unpleasant, overbearing male alien...so why is it that my body sings when he gets close? Why is he working so hard to prove to me that he's not as awful as I think he is?I hate him...don't I? ***The Ice Planet Barbarians Series:Ice Planet Barbarians - Georgie's StoryBarbarian Alien - Liz's StoryBarbarian Lover - Kira's StoryBarbarian Mine - Harlow's StoryIce Planet Holiday - Claire's Story (novella)Barbarian's Prize - Tiffany's StoryBarbarian's Mate - Josie's Story Read more
When I wake up on the ice planet, I’m scared of everything: this place is cold, silent, and the locals look more like blue devils than aliens. To make matters worse, one of the strangers decides I’m going to be his girlfriend and kidnaps me away from my sister. I’m completely and utterly alone. What’s a girl to do?Well, this girl escapes. Of course, that means I go from frying pan into the fire, and my situation gets even more dangerous. Just when I have no hope left, a new hero appears. Sure, he’s blue, horned, and has a tail. He’s also fierce, protective, makes me purr...and thinks I'm perfect.But is what we have real or just a mating instinct? Check out the entire Ice Planet Barbarians series:Book 1 -- Ice Planet Barbarians (Georgie's story)Book 2 -- Barbarian Alien (Liz's story)Book 3 -- Barbarian Lover (Kira's story)Book 4 -- Barbarian Mine (Harlow's story)Book 5 -- Ice Planet Holiday (Claire's story)Book 6 -- Barbarian's Prize (Tiffany's story)Book 7 -- Barbarian's Mate (Josie's story)Book 8 -- Barbarian's Touch (this book!)Book 9 -- Barbarian's Taming (coming soon!) Read more
Forward Command (Galaxy Bridge Book 1)
Daniel Gibbs
An all-new galaxy. A terrifying new enemy.Exploration of Sextans B is underway via the first stable trans-galactic wormhole in recorded history. Colonel Mateo Larra takes command of Joint Base Sagittarius Arch, the visionary new space station housing diplomats, merchants, and military personnel eager to make their mark. But with every opportunity comes opposition.Pirates harass travelers throughout the newly charted system. Smugglers, hauling valuable contraband, slip under the CDF’s nose. Even the League of Sol continues spy games as if the war never ended. Colonel Larra barely steps aboard the Arch before facing the most daunting challenges of his storied career. Challenges that have only begun.Ships vanish without a trace. The mysteries deepen when one reappears like a ghost, pristine as the day she left the shipyard—without her crew. But when the League ambassador is kidnapped, his bodyguards murdered in cold blood, Colonel Larra encounters an unimaginable horror on their doorstep. And this time, it’s a fight the Coalition can’t win. Read more
Dubious Risks (Gate Ghosts Book 12)
S. H. Jucha
The conclave continually pressures the Imperium Empire by ousting peacekeepers and Radag mercenaries from imperial territories. This interdicts resources bound for Krackus worlds from the suborned races and exacerbates Imperium distribution protocols.On Jegstrat, a populous Krackus world, declining grain shipments lead to favoring distribution to large companies. Saboteurs plan to slow production at Imperial Grains, the largest processing plant. The goal is to rebalance grain distribution, but the attack goes terribly awry, causing death and great damage.On the empire’s far side, the Liberation and its accompanying Trident squadrons deliver the next Helgart resident to the planet of Balgrade. The home world has a robust population, and the system offers rich resources. As such, large numbers of Krackus and Radags are widely distributed throughout the system.Captain Mila Pappas and Salus, a SADE, sail a traveler to reconnoiter the Balgrade home world. Mila makes the decision to drop planetside, and the pair’s tactics create chaos for Radag teams.With the Quellers relatively safe, Julien focuses on the races living on the far side of a Queller anomaly. His immediate goal is to meet with the Freiots. However, Utilimats intend to resist Julien’s visit with their warships.On the Krackus home world, Presiding Executor Gaketork’s efforts to convince the executors of the empire’s dire circumstances earn him the animosity of powerful individuals who believe the best thing for Imperium is to remove him from office — permanently. Read more
Echoes From the Moon (The Token Book One)
Nathan Hystad
The last living astronaut to walk on the Moon has been murdered…Silas visits his estranged grandfather’s lakehouse, in the aftermath of the deadly home invasion. What he discovers hidden below the floorboards triggers a mystery buried since the final trip to the Moon, over fifty years earlier.Rory returns to her family home in Vermont to write her second novel, but fate has a different story in mind. Her reunion is shattered when she’s thrust into danger revolving around the same tokens.Special Agent Waylen Brooks exposes a covert operation linked to the death of a retired astronaut. He soon finds out he’s not the only one searching for answers, and willing to kill for the truth.The unlikely trio find themselves defying the odds, with no one to trust but each other.Can they find the tokens before someone else does?Where do these artifacts lead?And what secrets should remain hidden?Echoes From the Moon is a tale of lineage and secrets by Nathan Hystad, the best-selling author of The Other Place, Below Us, and Lost Contact. Read more