10 Best SF Mystery Books Featuring Superpowered Characters!
Hey there, fellow bookworms and comic enthusiasts! If you're anything like me, you've got that uncontrollable sweet tooth for a riveting storyline revolving around superpowered characters. You know, that intoxicating blend of science fiction, entwined with a pulsating mystery and topped with a cherry of supernatural powers. Downright intoxicating, isn't it? I'll take that gleam in your eyes as a resounding 'yes'!
Well, brace yourselves, for I've managed to hone down countless aisles of the literary cosmos to present this list of the top 10 SF mystery books that will feed your need with their marvelous heroes and enigmatic plot twists. Be it telekinetic detectives who can solve crimes without moving a finger, time-traveling agents dodging paradoxes or perhaps, alien investigators with an array of cosmic abilities, this compilation has got you covered. So, as you dive into these otherworldly adventures, expect to lose sleep, skip meals, and utterly forget about your mundane chores. Well, who said becoming a part of cosmic battles and unraveling cosmic whodunits was going to be easy? Let's buckle up then, shall we? The superpowered mystery ride awaits!
『The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind』
Full of imagination, wit, and random sh*t flying through the air, this insane adventure from an irreverent new voice will blow your tiny mind. For Teagan Frost, sh*t just got real. Teagan Frost is having a hard time keeping it together. Sure, she's got telekinetic powers -- a skill that the government is all too happy to make use of, sending her on secret break-in missions that no ordinary human could carry out. But all she really wants to do is kick back, have a beer, and pretend she's normal for once. But then a body turns up at the site of her last job -- murdered in a way that only someone like Teagan could have pulled off. She's got 24 hours to clear her name - and it's not just her life at stake. If she can't unravel the conspiracy in time, her hometown of Los Angeles will be in the crosshairs of an underground battle that's on the brink of exploding . . .
Author | Jackson Ford |
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Price | $4.99 |
Publisher | Orbit |
Release Date | Jun 18, 2019 |
Source | Google Books |
『Renegades』
"The Renegades are a syndicate of prodigies--humans with extraordinary abilities--who emerged from the ruins of a crumbled society and established peace and order where chaos reigned. As champions of justice, they remain a symbol of hope and courage to everyone--except the villains they once overthrew. Nova has a reason to hate the Renegades, and she is on a mission for vengeance. As she gets closer to her target, she meets Adrian, a Renegade boy who believes in justice"--Amazon.com.
Author | Marissa Meyer |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Feiwel and Friends |
Release Date | Nov 07, 2017 |
Source | Google Books |
『Vicious』
V. E. Schwab's New York Times bestseller Vicious is a masterful tale of ambition, jealousy, desire, and superpowers. Victor and Eli started out as college roommates—brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things go horribly wrong. Ten years later, Victor breaks out of prison, determined to catch up to his old friend (now foe), aided by a young girl whose reserved nature obscures a stunning ability. Meanwhile, Eli is on a mission to eradicate every other super-powered person that he can find—aside from his sidekick, an enigmatic woman with an unbreakable will. Armed with terrible power on both sides, driven by the memory of betrayal and loss, the archnemeses have set a course for revenge—but who will be left alive at the end? In Vicious, V. E. Schwab brings to life a gritty comic-book-style world in vivid prose: a world where gaining superpowers doesn't automatically lead to heroism, and a time when allegiances are called into question. "A dynamic and original twist on what it means to be a hero and a villain. A killer from page one...highly recommended!" —Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Marvel Universe vs The Avengers and Patient Zero One of Publishers Weekly's Best Fantasy Books of 2013 At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author | V. E. Schwab |
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Price | $12.99 |
Publisher | Tor Books |
Release Date | Sep 24, 2013 |
Source | Google Books |
『Nobody』
Author of the popular BookTok series The Inheritance GamesJennifer Lynn Barnes introduces us to . . . Nobody. There are people in this world who are Nobody. No one sees them. No one notices them. They live their lives under the radar, forgotten as soon as you turn away. That's why they make the perfect assassins. The Institute finds these people when they're young and takes them away for training. But an untrained Nobody is a threat to their organization. And threats must be eliminated. Claire has been invisible her whole life, missed by the Institute's monitoring. But now they've ID'ed her and have sent Nix to remove her. Yet the moment Nix lays eyes on her, he can't make the hit. It's as if Claire and Nix are the only people in the world for each other. And they are—because no one else can really see them.
Author | Jennifer Lynn Barnes |
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Price | $9.99 |
Publisher | Carolrhoda Lab ® |
Release Date | Jan 01, 2013 |
Source | Google Books |
『Neuromancer』
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer is a science fiction masterpiece—a classic that ranks as one of the twentieth century’s most potent visions of the future. Case was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix—until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system, banishing him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run at an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, a mirror-eyed street-samurai, to watch his back, Case is ready for the adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction. Neuromancer was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind’s digital future—a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our imaginations.
Author | William Gibson |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Penguin |
Release Date | Jul 01, 2000 |
Source | Google Books |
『Rosewater』
Rosewater ist eine Stadt an der Grenze – an der Grenze zu der Biokuppel, die der außerirdische Wormwood in Nigeria, unweit von Lagos, errichtet hat. Angesiedelt haben sich dort die Hoffnungsvollen, die Hungrigen und die Hilflosen – all diejenigen, die dabei sein wollen, wenn sich ein Mal im Jahr dieser Dom öffnet und jeden, der sich in dessen Umgebung befindet, von seinen Leiden heilt. 2066 – Kaaro besitzt die außergewöhnliche Fähigkeit, über die von den Aliens verbreitete, sporenartige Xenosphäre auf Gedanken, Gefühle und Erinnerungen anderer Menschen zuzugreifen. Wegen seiner Begabung arbeitet er nicht ganz freiwillig für eine geheime Regierungsbehörde, um Kriminelle aufzuspüren. Doch als eine unsichtbare Seuche beginnt, andere mit derselben Begabung zu töten, setzt Kaaro alles daran, herauszufinden, wer oder was dahintersteckt. »Rosewater« ist vieles: First-Contact-Roman, Spionage-Thriller, Afrofuturismus und Biopunk. Und Tade Thompson gelingt es, all diese Strömungen zu einem beeindruckenden Gesamtwerk zu verflechten, das einen nicht mehr loslässt. Tade Thompsons Debütroman »Rosewater« wurde mit zahlreichen Awards ausgezeichnet und ist, was William Gibsons »Neuromancer« war: der Beginn einer neuen Welle der Science Fiction.
Author | Tade Thompson |
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Price | $17.99 |
Publisher | Golkonda Verlag |
Release Date | Jan 31, 2020 |
Source | Google Books |
『Altered Carbon』
In a twenty-fifth-century world in which death is nearly obsolete, thanks to a technology that allows a person's consciousness to be downloaded into a new body, former U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs, re-sleeved into a new body after a brutal death, finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly far-reaching conspiracy that could have horrifying repercussions. Reprint.
Author | Richard K. Morgan |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Random House Digital, Inc. |
Release Date | Jan 01, 2006 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Body Scout』
In this “timeless and original” sci-fi thriller (New York Times), a hardboiled baseball scout must solve the murder of his brother in a world transformed by body modification, perfect for readers of William Gibson and Max Barry. An Esquire Pick for the Top 50 Sci-Fi Books of All Time A New York Times Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novel of 2021 "A breathlessly paced techno-thriller characterized by stunning, spiky worldbuilding." — Esquire In the future you can have any body you want—as long as you can afford it. But in a New York ravaged by climate change and repeat pandemics, Kobo is barely scraping by. He scouts the latest in gene-edited talent for Big Pharma-owned baseball teams, but his own cybernetics are a decade out of date and twin sister loan sharks are banging down his door. Things couldn't get much worse. Then his brother—Monsanto Mets slugger J.J. Zunz—is murdered at home plate. Determined to find the killer, Kobo plunges into a world of genetically modified CEOs, philosophical Neanderthals, and back-alley body modification, only to quickly find he's in a game far bigger and more corrupt than he imagined. To keep himself together while the world is falling apart, he'll have to navigate a time where both body and soul are sold to the highest bidder. Diamond-sharp and savagely wry, The Body Scout is a timely science fiction thriller debut set in an all-too-possible future. "I devoured it." —Jonathan Lethem "Completely weird and still completely real. Delightful—I couldn't put it down."—Shea Serrano
Author | Lincoln Michel |
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Price | $9.99 |
Publisher | Orbit |
Release Date | Sep 21, 2021 |
Source | Google Books |
『Translation State』
The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple effect across the stars in this powerful novel from a Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author. "There are few who write science fiction like Ann Leckie can. There are few who ever could." —John Scalzi Qven was created to be a Presger translator. The pride of their Clade, they always had a clear path before them: learn human ways, and eventually, make a match and serve as an intermediary between the dangerous alien Presger and the human worlds. The realization that they might want something else isn't "optimal behavior". It's the type of behavior that results in elimination. But Qven rebels. And in doing so, their path collides with those of two others. Enae, a reluctant diplomat whose dead grandmaman has left hir an impossible task as an inheritance: hunting down a fugitive who has been missing for over 200 years. And Reet, an adopted mechanic who is increasingly desperate to learn about his genetic roots—or anything that might explain why he operates so differently from those around him. As a Conclave of the various species approaches—and the long-standing treaty between the humans and the Presger is on the line—the decisions of all three will have ripple effects across the stars. Masterfully merging space adventure and mystery, and a poignant exploration about relationships and belonging, Translation State is a triumphant new standalone story set in the celebrated Imperial Radch universe. "Leckie’s humane, emotionally intelligent, and deeply perceptive writing makes this tautly plotted adventure feel fundamentally true while also offering longtime fans a much anticipated glimpse into the Radch’s most mysterious species. Readers will be thrilled." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Another of Leckie’s beautiful mergings of the political, philosophical, and personal." —Kirkus (starred review)
Author | Ann Leckie |
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Price | $9.99 |
Publisher | Orbit |
Release Date | Jun 06, 2023 |
Source | Google Books |
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Alright guys, we've made it to the end. I gotta say, choosing just ten titles to feature was no small feat from the ocean of spectacular SF mystery novels out there featuring super-human abilities - trust me! Each of these novels brings something unique to the mystery genre, and you know me, I do love a good twist and a dash of super-powered capers to keep things fresh. Whether the characters are using their abilities to solve crimes or to commit them, their struggles and triumphs paint fascinating narratives that draw in readers from the first page to the last. We've got a great mix of classic titles and hot-off-the-press new releases. So, buckle up and clear out your reading schedule, because these ten novels are sure to take you on a high-octane journey through the worlds of forensic science-fiction like you've never experienced before! Boy, I would definitely love to have some of those superpowers! Till next time guys, keep reading and stay super!
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