Technothrillers: Favorite Authors (14 books)

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Technothrillers: Favorite Authors
Best/Favorite Technothriller Authors
  • Technothrillers are not simple crime thrillers
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Technothrillers have moments of thriller intensity, and plots that turn on the technical details, well-established with a deep dive like Clancy's Red October or a science blitz like Crichton's Jurassic Park. These thrillers explore emerging/near-reaching possibilities. Not your classic crime suspense thriller. Not a galaxy far, far away. Not a fantasy. Nothing magical. Plausible physics in some plausible Earth-based setting.

Sometimes, a writer's most-rated book is not a technothriller, such as author Dan Brown. Click on Dan Brown's author page and you'll see a list of his books. Angels & Demons has the most ratings (about 3 million), but it is (arguably) just a classic crime suspense thriller, not a techno-thriller. There is no technology per se, and arguably no technical detail. There is detailed symbolic/scripture interpretation, but no ... science. His book Deception Point is his most rated book that truly is a technothriller (with about 700,000 ratings).

If you object that a nominated book/author is not relevant to the technothriller genre, say so in the comments. Perhaps some day I'll earn the power to do something about it.

Book Group: Technothrillers
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  • Technothrillers: Best of the 20th Century
  • Technothrillers: Best of the 21st Century
  • Technothrillers: Best of the 1960s
  • Technothrillers: Best of the 1970s
  • Technothrillers: Best of the 1980s
  • Technothrillers: Best of the 1990s
  • Technothrillers: Best of the 2000s
  • Technothrillers: Best of the 2010s
  • Technothrillers: Best of the 2020s
Additional Lists:
  • Best Technothrillers Ever
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1	The Martian by Andy Weir (Goodreads Author) 4.42 avg rating — 1,357,913 ratings score: 395, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1) by Michael Crichton 4.14 avg rating — 1,089,439 ratings score: 298, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3) by Tom Clancy 4.12 avg rating — 392,110 ratings score: 196, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus by Richard Preston 4.16 avg rating — 124,572 ratings score: 195, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1) by Patricia Daniels Cornwell 4.03 avg rating — 267,555 ratings score: 198, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Daemon (Daemon, #1) by Leinad Zeraus 4.15 avg rating — 49,470 ratings score: 192, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Reamde by Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 57,758 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Deception Point by Dan Brown (Goodreads Author) 3.77 avg rating — 708,270 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 788,539 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Wool Omnibus (Silo, #1) by Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author) 4.22 avg rating — 287,726 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick 4.09 avg rating — 529,288 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Bering Strait (Future War #1) by F.X. Holden (Goodreads Author) 4.42 avg rating — 2,124 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Artificial Wisdom by Thomas R. Weaver (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 9,064 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Relic (Pendergast, #1) by Douglas Preston (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 117,635 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars