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Science Fiction


Delve into the future with these titles.

 

Alien Machines
Rendezvous with Rama
  Arthur C. Clarke
Ancient Shores  Jack McDevitt
Ringworld Series  Larry Niven


Alien Invasion
The War of the Worlds
  H.G. Wells
Childhood's End  Arthur C. Clarke
The Forge of God  Greg Bear


First Contact
2001: a Space Odyssey  Arthur C. Clarke
Stranger in a Strange Land  Robert A. Heinlein
Wheelers  Ian Stewart


Military Sci-fi
Starship Troopers
  Robert A. Heinlein
The Forever War  Joe Haldeman
Dorsai Spirit  Gordon R. Dickson
March Upcountry  David Weber


Future History
Star Maker
  Olaf Stapledon
Dune Chronicles  Frank Herbert
The Baroque Cycle  Neal Stephenson
Xeelee Sequence  Stephen Baxter


Galactic Civilisation
Foundation Series
  Isaac Asimov
Revelation Space Series  Alastair Reynolds
Night's Dawn Series  Peter F. Hamilton
Ender Wiggins Saga  Orson Scott Card


Frontier Worlds / Terraforming
Red Planet
  Robert A. Heinlein
Mars Trilogy  Kim Stanley Robinson


Ecology
Stand on Zanzibar  John Brunner
Darwin's Radio  Greg Bear


Cyberpunk
Neuromancer Series  William Gibson
Snow Crash  Neal Stephenson
The Shockwave Rider  John Brunner
Mind Players  Pat Cadigan

Apocalypse / Post Apocalypse
Riddley Walker
  Russell Hoban
High-Rise  J.G. Ballard
Eternity Road  Jack McDevitt
The Sheep Look Up  John Brunner


Superhuman Evolution
More Than Human
  Theodore Sturgeon
Evolution  Stephen Baxter
The Terminal Experiment  Robert J. Sawyer
Diaspora  Greg Egan


ESP
The Demolished Man  Alfred Bester
Pegasus  Anne McCaffrey
Patterist Series  Octavia Butler


Robots
Robot City Series  Isaac Asimov
Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep  Philip K. Dick
Frankenstien  Mary Shelley


Dystopia / Utopia
Nineteen Eighty-Four
  George Orwell
Brave New World  Aldous Huxley
A Clockwork Orange  Anthony Burgess
Fahrebheit 451  Ray Bradbury


Alternative Realities
A Scanner Darkly
  Philip K. Dick
Perdido Street Station  China Mielville
Humans  Robert J. Sawyer


Time Travel
The Time Machine
  H.G. Wells
Slaughterhouse-Five  Kurt Vonnegut
Doomsday Book  Connie Willis


Alternate History
The Man in the High Castle
  Philip K. Dick
Pavane  Keith Roberts
The Years of Rice and Salt  Kim Stanley Robinson