Technothriller books are a genre that mixes science fiction with action, suspense, war and even spy fiction. These books often reflect our world today but present thoughtful futuristic probabilities with things like artificial intelligence, cloning, genetic manipulation, politics, etc. But you can also hope to see spy elements such as espionage and hacking.
Top 10 Techno-Thrillers
(1) The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan #1) by Tom Clancy (1984)
The story depicts Soviet submarine captain Marko Ramius as he seemingly goes rogue with his country’s ballistic missile submarine Red October and a CIA analyst Jack Ryan as he proves his theory that Ramius is intending to defect to the United States.
(2) Relic (Pendergast #1) by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (1995)
Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum’s dark hallways and secret rooms. But the museum’s directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders. Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who—or what—is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?
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(3) The Lost World (Jurassic Park #2) by Michael Crichton (1995)
It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end–the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. There are rumors that something has survived. . . .
(4) The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1) by Suzanne Collins (2008)
Katniss Everdeen is forced to compete in the Hunger Games, an elaborate televised fight to the death consisting of adolescent contestants from the 12 Districts of Panem.
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(5) The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2) by Stieg Larsson (2006)
The story follows Lisbeth Salander as she returns to Sweden after spending a year abroad. She falls under suspicion of having murdered a journalist and his girlfriend, as well as her own social services guardian, Nils Bjurman, while Mikael Blomkvist tries to find her before the authorities.
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(6) Sphere by Michael Crichton (1987)
The story follows Norman Johnson, a psychologist engaged by the United States Navy, who joins a team of scientists assembled to examine a spacecraft of unknown origin discovered on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
(7) Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park #1) by Michael Crichton (1990)
A pragmatic paleontologist touring an almost complete theme park on an island in Central America is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park’s cloned dinosaurs to run loose.
(8) The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast #3) by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (2002)
In downtown Manhattan, a gruesome discovery has just been made-an underground charnel house containing the bones of dozens of murder victims. When a newspaper story on the old murders appears to ignite a new series of horrifyingly similar killings, FBI agent Pendergast, journalist Bill Smithback, and archaeologist Nora Kelly join forces to protect themselves from a vicious killer…before they become the next victims.
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(9) The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895)
A Time Traveller’s journey 800,000 years beyond his own era. There he discovers two bizarre races—the ethereal Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks—who not only symbolize the duality of human nature but offer a terrifying portrait of the men of tomorrow as well.
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(10) The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells (1897)
Griffin, a scientist who invents a way to change a body’s refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light. He carries out this procedure on himself and renders himself invisible but fails in his attempt to reverse it.
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