Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Exploration
Monthly median sales (top 30)
$9,081
The median book price
$4.99
Bestseller's daily sales
574
50th book's daily sales
22
Average number of pages per book
372
Monopoly/Olygopoly detected
No
Performance tracking
Competitiveness
Volume sales
Book price
Volatility
New releases
Self published
Matching KDP categories
fiction > science fiction > hard science fiction
84.52%
juvenile > fiction > science fiction
77.46%
fiction > science fiction > steampunk
77.46%
fiction > science fiction > military
77.46%
Keyword requirement
science fiction, dystopian
Best selling keywords
Median title & subtitle length is 3 words:
- Translation State
- Point Nemo
- Sunken Spaceship
- Lost in Time
- Accidental Conscript
- Indie success
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31.58%
- Volatility
- New releases
- KDP Select
100%
63.16%
73.33%
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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 | Translation State | Ann Leckie | N/A | N/A | $611 | $21.83 | 2,788 | |
2 | Not Till We Are Lost: Bobiverse, Book 5 | Dennis E. Taylor | Audible Originals | 71 | $476,695 | $29.66 | 0 | |
3 | Point Nemo | Jeremy Robinson | N/A | 247 | $365,134 | $48.12 | 32 | |
4 | Sunken Spaceship | Anthony J. Melchiorri | Aethon Books | 596 | $19,001 | $4.99 | 451 | |
5 | The Object: Hard Science Fiction | Joshua T. Calvert | Self published | 845 | $12,854 | $4.99 | 3,191 | |
6 | Delta-v | Daniel Suarez | Penguin Audio | 901 | $49,618 | $19.69 | 2,938 | |
7 | Lost in Time | A.G. Riddle | Self published | 1,343 | $24,507 | $11.99 | 20,310 | |
8 | Prince Dominator (The Prince of Britannia Saga Book 8) | Fred Hughes | Theogony Books | 1,433 | $11,908 | $5.99 | 196 | |
9 | Accidental Conscript | John Walker | Self published | 1,566 | $1,857 | $0.99 | 197 | |
10 | Starship For Rent | M.R. Forbes | Self published | 1,646 | $1,801 | $0.99 | 784 | |
11 | Conscript | Scott Bartlett | Mirth Publishing | 1,650 | $5,441 | $2.99 | 291 | |
12 | Ghost Station | S.A. Barnes | Macmillan Audio | 1,686 | N/A | $-1.00 | 78 | |
13 | The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers Book 1) | Becky Chambers | Harper Voyager | 1,743 | $26,442 | $14.99 | 25,712 | |
14 | The Exodus Gambit (House Adamant Book 1) | Glynn Stewart | Faolan's Pen Publishing Inc. | 1,749 | $8,802 | $4.99 | 620 | |
15 | Point Nemo | Jeremy Robinson | Breakneck Media | 1,941 | $9,727 | $5.99 | 98 |
Translation State
Ann Leckie
Not Till We Are Lost: Bobiverse, Book 5
Dennis E. Taylor
The number one best-selling series that Audible listeners call “wonderfully entertaining”, “packed with humor, geek references and thought-provoking storylines”, and performed by “a true master story teller and actor” returns as the Bobs face their deadliest challenge yet.The Bobiverse is a different place in the aftermath of the Starfleet War, and the days of the Bobs gathering in one big happy moot are far behind. There’s anti-Bob sentiment on multiple planets, the Skippies playing with an AI time bomb, and multiple Bobs just wanting to get away from it all.But it all pales compared to what Icarus and Daedalus discover on their 26,000-year journey to the center of the galaxy. Sure, it could settle the Fermi Paradox for good (and what Bob doesn’t want to solve a mystery of the universe?). But it also reveals a threat to the galaxy greater than anything the Bobs could have imagined.Just another average day in the Bobiverse. Read more
Point Nemo
Jeremy Robinson
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Sunken Spaceship
Anthony J. Melchiorri
An unlikely hero is swept up into intergalactic affairs when he stumbles upon a crashed starship.Ex-Army paratrooper Griffin “Fin” Brooks thought he left danger behind when his battlefield injuries forced him to pursue a new career in marine biology. But one fateful night off the coast of South Africa a ship nearly crashes into him and his loyal golden retriever, Jacques.Not just any ship. A starship.Though its alien pilot is dead, the rare extraterrestrial animal inside is not. Fin learns the creature is being smuggled across the galaxy when a pair of interstellar visitors respond to the crash. But those same investigators accuse Fin and his dog of crimes he didn’t even know existed.The only way to clear his name is to take the strange creature to its home planet and find out who’s responsible for killing the starship’s pilot. Which means Fin quickly needs to learn how to fly a spacecraft and navigate a galaxy teeming with intelligent life beyond his wildest dreams.And he’s not the only one with designs for the crashed starship and its cargo. Fin will need every skill he’s honed as a paratrooper and a marine biologist if he—and his dog—are to survive.Don't miss the next rolicking sci-fi adventure from Anthony J. Melchiorri. It's perfect for fans of JN Chaney, MR Forbes, and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 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
Delta-v
Daniel Suarez
The best-selling author of Daemon returns with a near-future technological thriller, in which a charismatic billionaire recruits a team of adventurers to launch the first deep space mining operation - a mission that could alter the trajectory of human civilization. When itinerant cave diver James Tighe receives an invitation to billionaire Nathan Joyce's private island, he thinks it must be a mistake. But Tighe's unique skill set makes him a prime candidate for Joyce's high-risk venture to mine a near-Earth asteroid - with the goal of kick-starting an entire off-world economy. The potential rewards and personal risks are staggering, but the competition is fierce, and the stakes couldn't be higher. Isolated and pushed beyond their breaking points, Tighe and his fellow 21st-century adventurers - ex-soldiers, former astronauts, BASE jumpers, and mountain climbers - must rely on each other to survive not only the dangers of a multi-year expedition but the harsh realities of business in space. They're determined to transform humanity from an Earth-bound species to a space-faring one - or die trying. Read more
Lost in Time
A.G. Riddle
The SUNDAY TIMES bestseller"Amazing! One of the twistiest time-tales I've ever read." –Diana Gabaldon"Crichtonesque thrillers don't come much better than this... Readers won't be able to turn the pages fast enough." –Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)"Are we talking plot twists? More like spirals. Gripping, clever, mind-bending stuff." –Daily MailFrom the worldwide bestselling author of Departure and Winter World comes a standalone novel about a father and daughter trying to unravel an intricate murder mystery spread across time – with a jaw-dropping twist.Control the past.Save the future.One morning, Dr. Sam Anderson wakes up to find that the woman he loves has been murdered.For Sam, the horror is only beginning.He and his daughter are accused of the crime. The evidence is ironclad. They will be convicted.And so, to ensure his daughter goes free, Sam does what he must: he confesses.But in the future, murderers aren't sent to prison.Thanks to a machine Sam helped invent, the world's worst criminals are now sent to the past – approximately 200 million years into the past, to the dawn of the time of the dinosaurs – where they must live out their lives alone, in exile from the human race.Sam accepts his fate.But his daughter doesn't.Adeline Anderson has already lost her mother to a deadly, unfair disease. She can't bear to lose her father as well.So she sets out on a quest to prove him innocent. And to get him back. People around her insist that both are impossible tasks.But Adeline doesn't give up. She only works harder.She soon learns that impossible tasks are her specialty. And that she is made of tougher stuff than she ever imagined.As she peels back the layers of the mystery that tore her father from this world, Adeline finds more questions than answers. Everyone around her is hiding a secret. But which ones are connected to the murder that exiled her father?That mystery stretches across the past, present, and future – and leads to a revelation that will change everything. Read more
Hazard King, AKA Prince Henry, was a prince with a problem. Oh sure, he’d defeated the Mordorians in the Sol System and had landed his Marines on earth. His landing parties had even found samples of the original virus used to develop Black Dragon, which—hopefully—could be used to develop an antidote, so the main objective of his mission had been fulfilled.The problem was, he couldn’t leave just what was left of the human population of Earth to the Mordorians, and unfortunately, he didn’t have the resources he needed to reconquer the planet. Hazard would have to return to Britannia to get the troops and materials required, then he could return and kick the Mordorians out of the Sol System for good.In order to return with the overwhelming force he needed to free Earth, he was willing to do anything—to pay whatever price his mother asked—and this time, Hazard would need to become… a Prince Dominator. Read more
Accidental Conscript
John Walker
Sam Levine knows what it means to struggle. After several missed opportunities, he’s been forced to turn his talents to freelance work, picking up whatever dirty job he can find only to make ends meet.But there’s an end in sight. An opportunity to change everything. And when a dangerous, high profile job comes his way, he sees light at the end of the tunnel. Hope has been in rare supply, but even with the dangers inherent in his decision, he puts his life on the line for a chance to elevate his situation. Read more
Starship For Rent
M.R. Forbes
When Noah sees an advertisement offering him a chance to rent a starship, he’s convinced it has to be a trick.Already mired in the worst day of his life, he’s willing to do anything to escape, including a field trip to the middle of nowhere to follow the lead. Except there is no trick. The starship is real. And Noah’s life will never be the same.All he has to do is sign the contract.The ship barely reaches orbit before the voyage goes sideways, and what starts as a leisurely jaunt through the solar system becomes an unscheduled detour through a galaxy more bizarre, dangerous, and incredible than Noah ever imagined. And what at first seems accidental might be anything but.…From tragedy to triumph. His true destiny awaits.If you like starships, improbable heroes and intergalactic mayhem, you’ll love Starship For Rent, the latest sci-fi adventure from bestselling author M.R. Forbes. Read more
Conscript
Scott Bartlett
The Scourge are backAnd the Corps needs recruitsDesperate to free his younger siblings from debt slavery, Po Abbato turns to crime. He's caught, and offered a choice: spend 25 years in a digital prison while his body rots......or join the Marines.But boot camp on the system's edge is different from on Earth. The DIs are much more...old school, out there. With war brewing, Po must learn what it truly means to put someone else's life before his own.Download Conscript now and join Po in the fight against an unrelenting alien menace. If you're a fan of Marko Kloos' Frontlines, Galaxy's Edge, or Ender's Game, you'll love this action-packed miitary scifi series. Read more
Ghost Station
S.A. Barnes
A crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.A. Barnes, acclaimed author of Dead Silence.An abandoned plant. A hidden past. A deadly danger.Psychologist Dr. Ophelia Bray has dedicated her life to the study and prevention of ERS—the most famous case of which resulted in the brutal murders of twenty-nine people. It's personal to her, and when she's assigned to a small exploration crew who recently suffered the tragic death of a colleague, she wants to help. But as they begin to establish residency on an abandoned planet, it becomes clear that crew is hiding something.And Ophelia's crewmates are far more interested in investigating the eerie, ancient planet and unraveling the mystery behind the previous colonizers' hasty departure than opening up to her.That is, until their pilot is discovered gruesomely murdered. Is this Ophelia’s worst nightmare starting—a wave of violence and mental deterioration from ERS? Or is it something even more sinister?Terrified that history will repeat itself, Ophelia and the crew must work together to figure out what’s happening. But trust is hard to come by…and the crew isn’t the only one keeping secrets.Also by S.A. Barnes:Dead SilenceA Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire. Read more
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers Book 1)
Becky Chambers
The acclaimed modern science fiction masterpiece, Hugo Award winner for Best Series!Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space—and one adventurous young explorer who discovers the meaning of family in the far reaches of the universe—in this light-hearted debut space opera from a rising sci-fi star.Rosemary Harper doesn’t expect much when she joins the crew of the aging Wayfarer. While the patched-up ship has seen better days, it offers her a bed, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy, and most importantly, some distance from her past. An introspective young woman who learned early to keep to herself, she’s never met anyone remotely like the ship’s diverse crew, including Sissix, the exotic reptilian pilot, chatty engineers Kizzy and Jenks who keep the ship running, and Ashby, their noble captain.Life aboard the Wayfarer is chaotic and crazy—exactly what Rosemary wants. It’s also about to get extremely dangerous when the crew is offered the job of a lifetime. Tunneling wormholes through space to a distant planet is definitely lucrative and will keep them comfortable for years. But risking her life wasn’t part of the plan. In the far reaches of deep space, the tiny Wayfarer crew will confront a host of unexpected mishaps and thrilling adventures that force them to depend on each other. To survive, Rosemary’s got to learn how to rely on this assortment of oddballs—an experience that teaches her about love and trust, and that having a family isn’t necessarily the worst thing in the universe.Also included on Library Journal's Best SFF of 2016, the Barnes & Nobles Sci-Fi Fantasy Blog Best Books of 2015, the Tor.com Best Books of 2015, Reader’s Choice, as well as nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Kitschie, and the Bailey's Women's Prize. Read more
The Exodus Gambit (House Adamant Book 1)
Glynn Stewart
Her family, gone, destroyed from withinHer kingdom, doomed, tainted by bloodUnless a scion rises to become something… moreIn a single ruthless blow, Commander Lorraine Adamant’s favorite uncle murders everyone ahead of him in the succession for the Star Kingdom of Adamant. Only luck and the paranoia of her bodyguard, Vigo Jarret, saves Lorraine’s life.On the run in a single starship Lorraine should never have commanded, with a crew she can not trust, she swiftly learns her uncle’s hounds are hot on her heels. She must gather every skill, every trick, she has ever learned if she is to survive—and pray the uncle who taught her those tricks is a step behind.Because one thing is certain: Lorraine Adamant will save her Kingdom—or die. Read more
Point Nemo
Jeremy Robinson
In the heart of the South Pacific lies Point Nemo, the most desolate and remote place on Earth. At its core is a dead zone, devoid of life, where government agencies crash their obsolete satellites and space stations, confident they won't harm a soul. When the International Space Station suffers a catastrophic failure and plummets through the atmosphere, it’s here that Mission Specialist Julie Rohr, an astrobiologist studying living space dust called xylem, finds herself marooned.Julie’s only hope for rescue lies in the hands of her estranged father, Dr. Finn Maddern, a renowned mycologist. Plucked from the depths of the Amazon rainforest, Finn is thrust into a daring rescue mission alongside a team of specialists. Their destination: an impossible island at the center of Point Nemo—an island that shouldn’t exist—composed of xylem.The island is a living enigma, giving birth to strange and terrifying creatures, each generation more evolved and deadly than the last. As the team delves deeper into the island’s alien mysteries, they find themselves in a race against time: the island is moving. If it escapes the dead zone and reaches fertile waters, nothing in humanity’s arsenal will be able to stop the invasive species from colonizing and remaking the world.With their team dwindling and the stakes rising, Finn and Julie must confront their past and face an unthinkable choice. To save humanity, a sacrifice must be made. A life exchanged for the world. The burden of survival and the weight of their family’s legacy falls on their shoulders.Point Nemo by New York Times and #1 Audible bestselling author, Jeremy Robinson is a chilling journey into the unknown; a tale of sacrifice and survival that blurs the line between science fiction and horror. It’s a testament to the lengths a parent will go to protect their child and a stark reminder of our fragile place in the universe. Read more
The Burning World (A Learning Experience Book 8)
Christopher G. Nuttall
The Belosi saved the human race. Now, we’re going to return the favour.Fifty years ago, a human covert operations team – The Firelighters – raided Belosi, a world held in bondage by the alien Tichck, and rescued thousands of Belosi from slavery, taking them into space to form the core of a future liberation force. Since then, a cloud of secrecy has descended over Belos, with no word of the fate of the trapped Belosi allowed to escape the system. Now, with the Tokomak War over and the Galactics in disarray, the Solar Union intends to honour its promises to the exiled Belosi, by supporting their fleet in a bid to reclaim their stolen homeworld.But the Tichck have plans of their own, and with the former masters of the universe no longer a threat, they can finally make their own play for supreme power.The first war is over. The second is about to begin. Read more
The Mars Anomaly: Hard Science Fiction
Joshua T. Calvert
When the Solar Flare took out the world’s power……nobody could explain why the street lights still glowed in Jakarta.Was it a signal from space?When the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) transmits strange images of the Red Planet: a scientifically unexplained light phenomenon on the summit of Elysium Mons has the experts both concerned and baffled.A team needed to check it out.The mission to Mars was set.Now, they had to build the team.Dr. Rachel Fereira, a world-renowned linguist, enjoyed her life as a professor at Stanford University. Her bestseller about how a possible first contact with intelligent life might go brought her a small amount of fame, but she didn’t expect a call from NASA.What were they keeping from the public?Was she ready for space?You’ll love this hard science fiction novel because we all wonder what’s out there beyond the stars.Get it now. Read more
World War Mars 2
Rick Partlow
A battle won, a war begun.General Bradstreet and the American forces on Mars have defeated the incursion by the insectoid Seekers, but at a heavy cost. The Morrigan is nearly out of reaction mass and can’t make it back to Earth, both landers have been destroyed and they have greater than fifty percent casualties. They’re stranded on Mars, saved only by the shelter of the Visitor ship.Until, miraculously, help arrives in the form of a new alliance with the French Coalition government, which provides a resupply ship filled with food, fuel, and reinforcements…both US Marines and French Special Forces. They’re saved.Or so they think.But can the French be trusted or do they have ulterior motives? And can their own people be depended upon to do the job when they ignore the advice of the veterans of this Martian war?Tom Bradstreet and Marine Sgt. Brent Parker face threats from within and without as they try to decide who their allies really are…and prepare to defend the Visitor ship from the next wave of attacks.Because the Seekers are still out there, and they still want the Visitor with the fervor of a religious jihad. And the real question is…who’s behind them?Book 2 in the next action-packed, gritty military sci-fi series from Rick Partlow, the bestselling author of the Drop Trooper Series and Taken to the Stars. Read more
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch Book 1)
Ann Leckie
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke Awards: This record-breaking novel follows a warship trapped in a human body on a quest for revenge. A must read for fans of Ursula K. Le Guin and James S. A. Corey. "There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. There are few who ever could." -- John Scalzi On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once, she was the Justice of Toren -- a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy. Now, an act of treachery has ripped it all away, leaving her with one fragile human body, unanswered questions, and a burning desire for vengeance. Read more
I’ve never spent a day without my mate since arriving on the ice planet. I’m happy and in love, and we have a beautiful child together. All that changed when the world shook. My mate nearly died.He wakes up from his coma…and he can’t remember me. Or our son. Every memory of the past two years is gone. And that changes everything between us. How can I love someone that doesn’t remember me?How can I not, when I know he’s still my mate underneath it all? Read more