Let your imagination fly far and wide this summer with these sci-fi books set on other planets! Forget traveling to the beach or the mountains. What about riding across Mars on the back of a dragon? Or doing an odd dance to stay away from giant sand worms? Anything and everything might happen on these planets far from our own, yet often, so similar.

(As an aside: Some of these books I’d consider more fantasy than sci-fi, but most of them would be considered science fiction, so that’s why I we...