I really started to explore the Sci-Fi genre after reading the main stream novels but i never read any book that is in the lines of horrifying sci-fi. The closest i read to this would be 1984 and Solaris but i need recommendations for this specific type of story
by Psycho_Slayer7
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Anything by lois mcmaster bujold
Robert Heinlein (any; but start with) The Door into Summer
Anderson: Time Patrol
Norton: Stargate
*Dawn* by Octavia Butler
*Hull Zero Three* by Greg Bear
*Sphere* by Michael Crichton
*Revelation Space* by Alastair Reynolds
None are really horrifying but they can all be pretty scary.
* Amatka by Karin Tidbeck. It’s a little like 1984.
* Short fiction by James Tiptree Jr., such as the anthology Her Smoke Rose Up Forever. Most of what this author wrote is sci fi horror.
* Blindsight by Peter Watts, available as a free ebook [on his website](https://rifters.com/real/shorts.htm). Stanislaw Lem, author of Solaris, is one of his inspirations. He jokingly says Lem took all of his best ideas several decades before he had a chance to think of them.
* Nightflyers by George R. R. Martin. A collection of short sci fi horror.
* The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley
Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
Dead Silence by SA Barnes
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
In the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
Leech by Hiron Ennes
The Passage by Justin Cronin
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
We Have Always Been Here by Lena Nguyen