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| Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,Lewis Carroll,1865,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL138052W,"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll. A young girl named Alice falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. | |
| One of the best-known works of Victorian literature, its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had huge influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre." | |
| Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus,Mary Shelley,1818,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL450063W,"*Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus* is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Her name first appeared in the second edition, which was published in Paris in 1821." | |
| The Time Machine,H. G. Wells,1895,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL52267W,"The Time Traveller, a dreamer obsessed with traveling through time, builds himself a time machine and, much to his surprise, travels over 800,000 years into the future. He lands in the year 802701: the world has been transformed by a society living in apparent harmony and bliss, but as the Traveler stays in the future he discovers a hidden barbaric and depraved subterranean class. Wells's transparent commentary on the capitalist society was an instant bestseller and launched the time-travel genre." | |
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,L. Frank Baum,1900,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18417W,"Over a century after its initial publication, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is still captivating the hearts of countless readers. Come adventure with Dorothy and her three friends: the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion, as they follow the Yellow Brick Road to the Emerald City for an audience with the Great Oz, the mightiest Wizard in the land, and the only one that can return Dorothy to her home in Kansas." | |
| The Lost World,Arthur Conan Doyle,1900,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262460W,"Journalist Ed Malone is looking for an adventure, and that's exactly what he finds when he meets the eccentric Professor Challenger - an adventure that leads Malone and his three companions deep into the Amazon jungle, to a lost world where dinosaurs roam free." | |
| Dracula,Bram Stoker,1897,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL85892W,"Sink your teeth into the ageless tale of the famous vampire Count Dracula. | |
| Dracula first horrified readers over 125 years ago. Today, this original gothic masterpiece includes a detailed exploration into the 1897 classic vampire novel and its author, Bram Stoker. | |
| In this bonus introduction, | |
| Learn about Stoker’s early life, his colorful career, and the famous friends he made leading up to the creation of his magnum opus, Dracula. | |
| Tune into the speculative theories of Stoker’s personal life and his deeply repressed homosexual tendencies. | |
| Delve deep into the folklore and mysticism that inspired Dracula, the masterful work itself, and the lasting impact it continues to have on pop culture. | |
| This annotated introduction accompanying this classic novel is essential for all fans of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I welcome you, the reader, as Count Dracula beckoned Jonathan Harker: | |
| “Welcome to my house. Enter freely and at your own free will.”" | |
| The Iron Heel,Jack London,1907,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL74502W,"Generally considered to be ""the earliest of the modern Dystopian,"" it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and 1970s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes." | |
| Flatland,Edwin Abbott Abbott,1884,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL118388W,"Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, though written in 1884, is still considered useful in thinking about multiple dimensions. It is also seen as a satirical depiction of Victorian society and its hierarchies. A square, who is a resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, dreams of the one-dimensional Lineland. He attempts to convince the monarch of Lineland of the possibility of another dimension, but the monarch cannot see outside the line. The square is then visited himself by a Sphere from three-dimensional Spaceland, who must show the square Spaceland before he can conceive it. As more dimensions enter the scene, the story's discussion of fixed thought and the kind of inhuman action which accompanies it intensifies." | |
| Brave New World,Aldous Huxley,1932,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL64468W,"Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good drugs, antiaging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media -- has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 AF (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity. A powerful work of speculative fiction that has enthralled and terrified readers for generations, Brave New World is both a warning to be heeded and thought-provoking yet satisfying entertainment. - Container." | |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four,George Orwell,1949,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1168083W,"Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair). It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated. | |
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| [Novels (Animal Farm / Burmese Days / Clergyman's Daughter / Coming Up for Air / Keep the Aspidistra Flying / Nineteen Eighty-Four)](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1168045W) | |
| [Novels (Animal Farm / Nineteen Eighty-Four)](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1167981W) | |
| [Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: Text, Sources, Criticism](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1168095W)" | |
| The War of the Worlds,H. G. Wells,1898,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL52114W,"The ultimate science fiction classic: for more than one hundred years, this compelling tale of the Martian invasion of Earth has enthralled readers with a combination of imagination and incisive commentary on the imbalance of power that continues to be relevant today. The style is revolutionary for its era, employing a sophisticated first and third person account of the events which is both personal and focused on the holistic downfall of Earth's society. The Martians, as evil, mechanical and unknown a threat they are, remain daunting in today's society, where, despite technology's mammoth advances, humanity's hegemony over Earth is yet to be called into question. In Well's introduction to the book, where the character discusses with the later deceased Ogilvy about astronomy and the possibility of alien life defeating the 'savage' (to them) nineteenth-century Britain, is he insinuating that this is the truth and fate of humanity? It's up to you to decide…" | |
| The Invisible Man,H. G. Wells,1897,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL52266W,"This book is the story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows." | |
| The Princess and Curdie,George MacDonald,1832,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15448W,"With the help of a mysterious fairy queen who provides monstrous but gentle creatures to aid him, a miner's son takes on the dangerous task of helping the king and princess confound their enemies and save the kingdom." | |
| Vingt mille lieues sous les mers,Jules Verne,1870,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1099280W,"A nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century." | |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,Robert Louis Stevenson,1875,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24156W,"Stevenson’s famous gothic novella, first published in 1886, and filmed countless times is better known simply as Jekyll and Hyde. The first novel to toy with the idea of a split personality, it features the respectable Dr. Jekyll transforming himself into the evil Mr Hyde in a failed attempt to learn more about the duality of man." | |
| The Poison Belt,Arthur Conan Doyle,1913,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262596W,"Being an account of another adventure of Prof. George E. Challenger, Lord John Roxton, Prof. Summerlee and Mr E. D. M | |
| alone, the discoverers of ""The Lost World""." | |
| The Secret Agent,Joseph Conrad,1907,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL39108W,"**The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale** is a novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1907. The story is set in London in 1886 and deals with Mr. Adolf Verloc and his work as a spy for an unnamed country (presumably Russia). The Secret Agent is one of Conrad's later political novels in which he moved away from his former tales of seafaring. The novel is dedicated to H. G. Wells and deals broadly with anarchism, espionage, and terrorism. It also deals with exploitation of the vulnerable in Verloc's relationship with his brother-in-law Stevie, who has an intellectual disability. Conrad’s gloomy portrait of London depicted in the novel was influenced by Charles Dickens’ *Bleak House*. | |
| (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Agent))" | |
| Fahrenheit 451,Ray Bradbury,1953,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL103123W,"Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. Often regarded as one of his best works, the novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and ""firemen"" burn any that are found. The book's tagline explains the title as ""'the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns"": the autoignition temperature of paper. The lead character, Guy Montag, is a fireman who becomes disillusioned with his role of censoring literature and destroying knowledge, eventually quitting his job and committing himself to the preservation of literary and cultural writings. | |
| The novel has been the subject of interpretations focusing on the historical role of book burning in suppressing dissenting ideas for change. In a 1956 radio interview, Bradbury said that he wrote Fahrenheit 451 because of his concerns at the time (during the McCarthy era) about the threat of book burning in the United States. In later years, he described the book as a commentary on how mass media reduces interest in reading literature. | |
| In 1954, Fahrenheit 451 won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal. It later won the Prometheus ""Hall of Fame"" Award in 1984 and a ""Retro"" Hugo Award, one of a limited number of Best Novel Retro Hugos ever given, in 2004. Bradbury was honored with a Spoken Word Grammy nomination for his 1976 audiobook version. | |
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| Also contained in: | |
| - [451° по Фаренгейту: Рассказы](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17811384W/Fahrenheit_451_stories) | |
| - [451° по Фаренгейту: повести и рассказы](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27741633W) | |
| - [Works](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL28185143W)" | |
| The Island of Dr. Moreau,H. G. Wells,1896,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL381550W,"Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in his first book, The Time Machine, not its potential for misuse and terror. In The Island of Dr. Moreau, a shipwrecked gentleman named Edward Prendick, stranded on a Pacific island lorded over by the notorious Dr. Moreau, confronts dark secrets, strange creatures, and a reason to run for his life. | |
| While this riveting tale was intended to be a commentary on evolution, divine creation, and the tension between human nature and culture, modern readers familiar with genetic engineering will marvel at Wells’s prediction of the ethical issues raised by producing “smarter” human beings or bringing back extinct species. These levels of interpretation add a richness to Prendick’s adventures on Dr. Moreau’s island of lost souls without distracting from what is still a rip-roaring good read." | |
| At The Earth's Core And Out Of Time's Abyss,Edgar Rice Burroughs,1914,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1417907W,"Dr. Abner Perry has invented a high-calibration digging machine affectionately called 'The Iron Mole'. While testing his invention with his financial backer and former student David Innes, the machine malfunctions and the pair end up burrowing deep into the earth to emerge in Pellucidar, a lush underground cavern filled with giant prehistoric creatures. While fleeing one such creature, Dr. Perry and David are captured by strange inhuman soldiers, called Sagoths, and placed with other human slaves, where they meet Ghak and the beautiful Princess Dia. Dia is kidnapped by another human named Hoojah the Sly One, while Dr. Perry, David and the slaves are taken to the city of the Majars, large telepathic bird-like creatures that rule the underground world. While David is sent to repair the walls that protect the city from the molten lava, Dr. Perry is sent to transcribe books in the Majar's library. David is able to escape his captors and finds a secret passage out of the Majar city. Outside, David meets Ra, the chief of a human tribe. David suggests that Ra organize the tribes to defeat the Majar but Ra shows David the Majar's true power by taking him to the Majar's grotto where he witnesses one of the Majars hypnotize a female slave before swooping down and carrying her off in its powerful talons. While sneaking back into the city, David and Ra are captured and forced to battle a huge monster but they prevail, killing a Majar in the process. Seeing that the Majar are not invincible, the slaves revolt, allowing David and Ra to escape with Ghak and Dr. Perry. Along the way, Dr. Perry shows David the 'secret of the Majar', a nursery where all the Majar are born. David vows to destroy the Majars but first, he must rescue Dia from Jubal the Ugly One. With the aid of Ra and Ghak, David unites the human tribes and arms them with primitive weapons but the telepathic Majar are prepared for their attack. At first, the battle doesn't go well, with Dia and Dr. Perry being captured but Ra is able to destroy the nursery by unleashing the lava at the cost of his own life. Hypnotized by a Majar, Dia is about to be killed when David and the other humans arrive to save her and Dr. Perry. As the humans flee the city, it is consumed by lava, killing all the Majar. Returning to the surface, David asks Dia to come with him but she says she cannot and the two sadly part company." | |
| The warlord of Mars #3,"Edgar Rice Burroughs, Aberdeen Press, Jim Killavey, Paula Paula",1919,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1418137W,"The Warlord of mars is the last book in the trilogy that Mr. Burroughs did not intend to write. The first book being: “The Princess of Mars” and the second being: “The God of Mars”. The book takes up 6 months after “The Princess of Mars” Where our hero Carter is relentless in trying to find his princess and the villain “Thurid” whom has taken her. Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. This eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year." | |
| "Thuvia, Maid of Mars","Edgar Rice Burroughs, Taylor Anderson, Craig Trahan, Eric King, J. Allen St. John, Aberdeen Press",1916,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1418128W,"Thuvia, Maid of Mars, is the next generation of Barsoomains. Instead of John Carter “Warlord of Mars”, it is his son, Cathoris, that gets to try to rescue the princess Thuvia that has been kidnapped by the evil prince Astok of Dusar. This is another Edgar Burroughs action packed science fiction adventure.Please Note: This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. This eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year." | |
| A Princess of Mars,Edgar Rice Burroughs,1917,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1418187W,"I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood. So far as I can recollect I have always been a man, a man of about thirty. I appear today as I did forty years and more ago, and yet I feel that I cannot go on living forever; that some day I shall die the real death from which there is no resurrection. | |
| [Adventures of John Carter in Mars -- from the author of the Tarzan series.]" | |
| The Napoleon of Notting Hill,Gilbert Keith Chesterton,1904,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL76473W,"A witty and surreal novel of the future. | |
| In a rather dull stuck-in-a-rut future, a prankster chosen randomly to be King of England revives the old ways and inadvertently arouses romantic patriotism and civil war between the boroughs of London." | |
| Voyage au Centre de la Terre,Jules Verne,1867,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1099513W,"Three explorers descend to the center of the earth, where they encounter tumultuous storms, wild prehistoric animals, and fierce cavemen." | |
| The food of the gods and how it came to earth,H. G. Wells,1900,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL52195W,"The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that was first published in 1904. Wells called it ""a fantasia on the change of scale in human affairs. . . . I had hit upon [the idea] while working out the possibilities of the near future in a book of speculations called Anticipations (1901)"". | |
| The novel, which has had various B-movie adaptations, is about a group of scientists that invents food that accelerates the growth of children and turns them into giants when they become adults." | |
| The wood beyond the world,"William Morris, William Norris, William, Morris, William Morris, William William Morris, WILLIAM MORRIS, Random House",1894,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL47752W,"<p><a href=""https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/william-morris"">William Morris</a> is famous in no small part for his contributions to defining the genre of modern fantasy literature, and <i>The Wood Beyond the World</i> is a classic example of that influence. Written in a purposefully-antiquated prose style reminiscent of Sir Thomas Malory or other aged fairy tales, <i>The Wood Beyond the World</i> can be difficult for some readers; but those who follow through will enjoy a charming and influential series of picaresque adventures.</p> | |
| <p>The book follows Golden Walter, a man leaving home who finds himself swept away to an enchanted land. He encounters a fair maiden who is trapped by an enchantress and her consort. Walter must, like all good heroes, save the maiden and see if they can make it to happily ever after.</p>" | |
| When the Sleeper Awakes,H. G. Wells,1899,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL52151W,"A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During his centuries of slumber, however, investments are made that make him the richest and most powerful man on Earth. But when he comes out of his trance he is horrified to discover that the money accumulated in his name is being used to maintain a hierarchal society in which most are poor, and more than a third of all people are enslaved. Oppressed and uneducated, the masses cling desperately to one dream – that the sleeper will awake, and lead them all to freedom." | |
| De la terre à la lune,Jules Verne,1865,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1099479W,Novela grafica | |
| Мы,Евгений Иванович Замятин,1924,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL10215W,"Wikipedia | |
| We is set in the future. D-503, a spacecraft engineer, lives in the One State, an urban nation constructed almost entirely of glass, which assists mass surveillance. The structure of the state is Panopticon-like, and life is scientifically managed F. W. Taylor-style. People march in step with each other and are uniformed. There is no way of referring to people except by their given numbers. The society is run strictly by logic or reason as the primary justification for the laws or the construct of the society. The individual's behavior is based on logic by way of formulas and equations outlined by the One State. | |
| We is a dystopian novel completed in 1921. It was written in response to the author's personal experiences with the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, his life in the Newcastle suburb of Jesmond and work in the Tyne shipyards at nearby Wallsend during the First World War. It was at Tyneside that he observed the rationalization of labor on a large scale." | |
| The Handmaid's Tale,Margaret Atwood,1985,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL675783W,"The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England, in a strongly patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state, known as the Republic of Gilead, which has overthrown the United States government. The central character and narrator is a woman named Offred, one of the group known as ""handmaids"", who are forcibly assigned to produce children for the ""commanders"" — the ruling class of men in Gilead. | |
| The novel explores themes of subjugated women in a patriarchal society, loss of female agency and individuality, and the various means by which they resist and attempt to gain individuality and independence. | |
| The Handmaid's Tale won the 1985 Governor General's Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987; it was also nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award, the 1986 Booker Prize, and the 1987 Prometheus Award. | |
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| [Novels](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL24301311W)" | |
| The Andromeda Strain,Michael Crichton,1751,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46900W,"Airframe is a novel by the American writer Michael Crichton, his eleventh under his own name and twenty-first overall, first published in 1996, in hardcover, by Knopf and then in 1997, as a paperback, by Ballantine Books. The plot follows Casey Singleton, a quality assurance vice president at the fictional aerospace manufacturer Norton Aircraft, as she investigates an in-flight accident aboard a Norton-manufactured airliner that leaves three passengers dead and 56 injured. | |
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| See also: | |
| [Airframe. 1/2](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL28764897W/Airframe._1_2)" | |
| In the days of the comet,H. G. Wells,1906,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL52252W,"H. G. Wells, in his 1906 In the Days of the Comet uses the vapors of a comet to trigger a deep and lasting change in humanity's perspective on themselves and the world. In the build-up to a great war, poor student William Leadford struggles against the harsh conditions the lower-class live under. He also falls in love with a middle-class girl named Nettie. But when he discovers that Nettie has eloped with a man of upper-class standing, William struggles with the betrayal, and in the disorder of his own mind decides to buy a revolver and kill them both. All through this a large comet lights the night sky with a green glow, bright enough that the street lamps are left unlit." | |
| A Clockwork Orange,Anthony Burgess,1962,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL261794W,"A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. The teenage protagonist, Alex, narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state authorities intent on reforming him. The book is partially written in a Russian-influenced argot called ""Nadsat"", which takes its name from the Russian suffix that is equivalent to '-teen' in English. According to Burgess, it was a jeu d'esprit written in just three weeks. | |
| In 2005, A Clockwork Orange was included on Time magazine's list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923, and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The original manuscript of the book has been kept at McMaster University's William Ready Division of Archives and Research Collections in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada since the institution purchased the documents in 1971. It is considered one of the most influential dystopian books. | |
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| Also contained in: | |
| [A Clockwork Orange and Honey for the Bears](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL23787405W) | |
| [A Clockwork Orange / The Wanting Seed](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17306508W)" | |
| The Martian Chronicles,Ray Bradbury,1950,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL103134W,"This is a collection of science fiction short stories, cleverly cobbled together to form a coherent and very readable novel about a future colonization of Mars. As the stories progress chronologically the author tells how the first humans colonized Mars, initially sharing the planet with a handful of Martians. When Earth is devastated by nuclear war the colony is left to fend for itself and the colonists determine to build a new Earth on Mars." | |
| On The Beach,"Nevil Shute, Gideon Haigh, G. C. Thornley, SparkNotes Staff, SparkNotes",1957,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2779754W,"A novel about the survivors of an atomic war, who face an inevitable end as radiation poisoning moves toward Australia from the North." | |
| It Can't Happen Here,Sinclair Lewis,1935,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL51145W,"It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical American political novel published in 1935. It's Plot centers around newspaperman Doremus Jessup's struggle against the fascist regime of America' new president, Berzelius ""Buzz"" Windrip. Windripis elected on a platform promising to restore prosperity and $5,000 a year for all citizens. Once in office, however, he becomes a dictator, among other things, putting his enemies in concentration camps." | |
| Dune,Frank Herbert,1965,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL893415W,"Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the ""spice"" melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for... | |
| When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul's family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream. | |
| A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction." | |
| The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy,Douglas Adams,1979,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163649W,"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is the first of six books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction ""hexalogy"" by Douglas Adams. The novel is an adaptation of the first four parts of Adams's radio series of the same name. The novel was first published in London on 12 October 1979. It sold 250,000 copies in the first three months. | |
| The namesake of the novel is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a fictional guide book for hitchhikers (inspired by the Hitch-hiker's Guide to Europe) written in the form of an encyclopaedia. | |
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| Also contained in: | |
| - [The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts][1] | |
| - [The More than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide][2] | |
| - [Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163706W) | |
| [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163692W | |
| [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163713W" | |
| 2001,Arthur C. Clarke,1968,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17365W,"A novel that proposes an idea about how the human race might have begun and where it might be headed...given a little help from out there. A colaboration of ideas with director Stanley Kubrick in the late 1960's it begins at ""the dawn of man"" and then leaps to the year 2001 where a mission to Saturn (Jupiter in the film) is mounted to try and answer questions raised by the discovery of an ancient artifact dug up on the moon. Though not particularly fast paced, the science is good, and there are a few hair raising events. There are also interesting speculations about the future, such as the space shuttle, and a device eerily similar to an iPad. Leaving plenty of room for contemplation and the appreciation for the inevitable trials of space travel, this is one of the truly landmark pieces of hard science fiction." | |
| The First Men in the Moon,H. G. Wells,1900,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL52260W,"When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that blocks gravity. Cavor soon succeeds in his experiments, only to tell a stunned Bedford the invention makes possible one of the oldest dreams of humanity: a journey to the moon. With Bedford motivated by money, and Cavor by the desire for knowledge, the two embark on the expedition. But neither are prepared for what they find - a world of freezing nights, boiling days and sinister alien life, on which they may be trapped forever." | |
| A strange manuscript found in a copper cylinder,James De Mille,1888,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL96167W,"Four men aboard a boat find the titular strange manuscript in a cylindar floating in the sea. It turns out to be the story of Adam More, a sailor stranded in a savage hidden country in Antarctica. In this ""nation"" are everything from cannibals to kings and the bizarre citizens love death and poverty as other nations love life and prosperity. Can Adam escape...?" | |
| Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator,Roald Dahl,1972,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45793W,"Taking up where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory leaves off, Charlie, his family, and Mr. Wonka find themselves launched into space in the great glass elevator." | |
| The Hunger Games,Suzanne Collins,2008,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5735363W,"The Hunger Games is a 2008 dystopian novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the perspective of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the future, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games is an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle royale to the death. | |
| The book received critical acclaim from major reviewers and authors. It was praised for its plot and character development. In writing The Hunger Games, Collins drew upon Greek mythology, Roman gladiatorial games, and contemporary reality television for thematic content. The novel won many awards, including the California Young Reader Medal, and was named one of Publishers Weekly's ""Best Books of the Year"" in 2008. | |
| The Hunger Games was first published in hardcover on September 14, 2008, by Scholastic, featuring a cover designed by Tim O'Brien." | |
| The Giver,Lois Lowry,1993,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1846076W,"At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life." | |
| A Wrinkle in Time,Madeleine L'Engle,1962,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41495W,"A Wrinkle in Time is a science fiction fantasy novel by American writer Madeleine L'Engle, first published in 1962. It is about Meg And Charles Walence. Their father, who was working on a interesting project called a tesseract, goes missing! Then they meet a boy and some strange women. This story won a Newbery Medal, Sequoyah Book Award and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award For this amazing story! It also has a movie! I Hope you all enjoy!" | |
| Ender's Game,Orson Scott Card,1985,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL49488W,"Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set at an unspecified date in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled humankind after two conflicts with the Formics, an insectoid alien species they dub the ""buggers"". In preparation for an anticipated third invasion, children, including the novel's protagonist, Andrew ""Ender"" Wiggin, are trained from a very young age by putting them through increasingly difficult games, including some in zero gravity, where Ender's tactical genius is revealed. | |
| The book originated as a short story of the same name, published in the August 1977 issue of Analog Science Fiction and Fact. The novel was published on January 15, 1985. Later, by elaborating on characters and plotlines depicted in the novel, Card was able to write additional books in the Ender's Game series. Card also released an updated version of Ender's Game in 1991, changing some political facts to reflect the times more accurately (e.g., to include the recent collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War). The novel has been translated into 34 languages. | |
| Reception of the book has been mostly positive. It has become suggested reading for many military organizations, including the United States Marine Corps. Ender's Game was recognized as ""best novel"" by the 1985 Nebula Award[3] and the 1986 Hugo Award[4] in the genres of science fiction and fantasy. Its four sequels—Speaker for the Dead (1986), Xenocide (1991), Children of the Mind (1996), and Ender in Exile (2008)—follow Ender's subsequent travels to many different worlds in the galaxy. In addition, the later novella A War of Gifts (2007) and novel Ender's Shadow (1999), plus other novels in the Shadow saga, take place during the same time period as the original. | |
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| Contained in: | |
| [Ender's War](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL49619W) | |
| See also: | |
| - [Ender's Game: 1/2](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19647657W/Ender's_Game._1_2) | |
| [1]: http://www.hatrack.com/osc/books/endersgame/" | |
| A Modern Utopia,H. G. Wells,1900,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL52256W,"Imagine a life without worries. You live in a perfect environment untouched by pollution. You have a job to do and play an important role in society. The politicians are watching out for your best interest. And, you get along with your neighbors. Wells’ utopia may not only be unattainable, it may be detrimental to humanity’s progress. Decide for yourself as you read this classic quest for social equality in the modern era." | |
| Foundation,Isaac Asimov,1951,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46125W,"One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are unsurpassed for their unique blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building. | |
| The story of our future begins with the history of Foundation and its greatest psychohistorian: Hari Seldon. For twelve thousand years the Galactic Empire has ruled supreme. Now it is dying. Only Hari Seldon, creator of the revolutionary science of psychohistory, can see into the future--a dark age of ignorance, barbarism, and warfare that will last thirty thousand years. To preserve knowledge and save mankind, Seldon gathers the best minds in the Empire--both scientists and scholars--and brings them to a bleak planet at the edge of the Galaxy to serve as a beacon of hope for future generations. He calls his sanctuary the Foundation. | |
| But soon the fledgling Foundation finds itself at the mercy of corrupt warlords rising in the wake of the receding Empire. And mankind's last best hope is faced with an agonizing choice: submit to the barbarians and live as slaves--or take a stand for freedom and risk total destruction." | |
| "I, Robot",Isaac Asimov,1950,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46241W,"I, Robot is a fixup novel of science fiction short stories or essays by American writer Isaac Asimov. The stories originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 1940 and 1950 and were then compiled into a book for stand-alone publication by Gnome Press in 1950, in an initial edition of 5,000 copies. The stories are woven together by a framing narrative in which the fictional Dr. Susan Calvin tells each story to a reporter (who serves as the narrator) in the 21st century. Although the stories can be read separately, they share a theme of the interaction of humans, robots, and morality, and when combined they tell a larger story of Asimov's fictional history of robotics. | |
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| Contains: | |
| ""Introduction"" (the initial portion of the framing story or linking text) | |
| ""[Robbie](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46260W)"" (1940, 1950) | |
| ""Runaround"" (1942) | |
| ""Reason"" (1941) | |
| ""Catch That Rabbit"" (1944) | |
| ""Liar!"" (1941) | |
| ""Little Lost Robot"" (1947) | |
| ""Escape!"" (1945) | |
| ""Evidence"" (1946) | |
| ""The Evitable Conflict"" (1950) | |
| ---------- | |
| Contained in: | |
| [Foundation / I, Robot](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20098770W) | |
| [Great Science Fiction Stories](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL36759365W)" | |
| The Gunslinger,Stephen King,1976,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81628W,"[The Dark Tower][1] I | |
| The Gunslinger is a dark-fantasy by American author Stephen King. It is the first volume in the Dark Tower series. | |
| The Gunslinger was first published in 1982 as a fix-up novel, joining five short stories that had been published between 1978 and 1981. King substantially revised the novel in 2003; this version has remained in print ever since, with the subtitle RESUMPTION. | |
| The story centers upon Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger, who has been chasing his adversary, ""the man in black,"" for many years. The novel fuses Western fiction with fantasy, science fiction, and horror, following Roland's trek through a vast desert and beyond in search of the man in black. Roland meets several people along his journey, including a boy named Jake Chambers, who travels with him part of the way. | |
| ""The Gunslinger"" (October 1978) | |
| ""The Way Station"" (April 1980) | |
| ""The Oracle and the Mountains"" (February 1981) | |
| ""The Slow Mutants"" (July 1981) | |
| ""The Gunslinger and the Dark Man"" (November 1981) | |
| [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81600W/The_Dark_Tower_1-7" | |
| Deception Point,Dan Brown,2001,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL76835W,"Deception Point is a 2001 mystery-thriller novel by American author Dan Brown. It is Brown's third novel. It was published by Simon & Schuster. | |
| The novel follows White House intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton's involvement in corroborating NASA's discovery of a meteorite that supposedly contains proof of extraterrestrial life, resembling the ALH84001 case. The discovery comes at a time close to the United States presidential election in which her father is running. The discovery will aid the campaign of her employer, the incumbent president of the United States, Zachary Herney, but put her further at odds with her already estranged father, Senator Sedgwick Sexton, a senator who is running for election. Sexton, accompanied by a team of experts, must uncover the authenticity of the meteorite which will either make or break the campaign of President Herney. | |
| Contains: | |
| [Deception Point [1/2]](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL25327019W) | |
| [Deception Point [2/2]](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL30946570W)" | |
| Jurassic Park,Michael Crichton,1990,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46881W,"Jurassic Park is a 1990 science fiction novel written by Michael Crichton. A cautionary tale about genetic engineering, it presents the collapse of an amusement park showcasing genetically re-created dinosaurs to illustrate the mathematical concept of chaos theory and its real-world implications. A sequel titled The Lost World, also written by Crichton, was published in 1995. In 1997, both novels were re-published as a single book titled Michael Crichton's Jurassic World. In 1996 it was awarded the Secondary BILBY Award. | |
| Also contained in: | |
| [Congo/Jurassic Park](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8475707W) | |
| [Michael Crichton's Jurassic World](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14950507W)" | |
| Slaughterhouse-Five,Kurt Vonnegut,1968,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL98459W,"Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know." | |
| The Restaurant at the End of the Universe,Douglas Adams,1980,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163655W,"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe is the second book in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction ""trilogy"" by Douglas Adams, and is a sequel. It was originally published by Pan Books as a paperback. The book was inspired by the song ""Grand Hotel"" by British rock band Procol Harum. The book title refers to Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, one of the settings of the book. | |
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| Also contained in: | |
| - [The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts][2] | |
| - [The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide][3] | |
| - [Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163706W) | |
| [1]: http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/0345391810.html | |
| [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163692W | |
| [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163713W" | |
| The Blind Assassin,Margaret Atwood,2000,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL675698W,"More than fifty years on, Iris Chase is remembering Laura's mysterious death. And so begins an extraordinary and compelling story of two sisters and their secrets. Set against a panoramic backdrop of twentieth-century history, The Blind Assassin is an epic tale of memory, intrigue and betrayal..." | |
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,Philip K. Dick,1968,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2172356W,"It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. | |
| Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignment--find them and then...""retire"" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked exactly like humans, and they didn't want to be found!" | |
| A Game of Thrones,George R. R. Martin,1996,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL257943W,"A Game of Thrones is the first novel in A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels by the American author George R. R. Martin. It was first published on August 1, 1996. The novel won the 1997 Locus Award and was nominated for both the 1997 Nebula Award and the 1997 World Fantasy Award. The novella Blood of the Dragon, comprising the Daenerys Targaryen chapters from the novel, won the 1997 Hugo Award for Best Novella. In January 2011, the novel became a New York Times Bestseller and reached No. 1 on the list in July 2011." | |
| The Left Hand of Darkness,Ursula K. Le Guin,1900,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL59800W,"[Comment by Kim Stanley Robinson, on The Guardian's website][1]: | |
| The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin (1969) | |
| > One of my favorite novels is The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K Le Guin. For more than 40 years I've been recommending this book to people who want to try science fiction for the first time, and it still serves very well for that. One of the things I like about it is how clearly it demonstrates that science fiction can have not only the usual virtues and pleasures of the novel, but also the startling and transformative power of the thought experiment. | |
| > In this case, the thought experiment is quickly revealed: ""The king was pregnant,"" the book tells us early on, and after that we learn more and more about this planet named Winter, stuck in an ice age, where the humans are most of the time neither male nor female, but with the potential to become either. The man from Earth investigating this situation has a lot to learn, and so do we; and we learn it in the course of a thrilling adventure story, including a great ""crossing of the ice"". Le Guin's language is clear and clean, and has within it both the anthropological mindset of her father Alfred Kroeber, and the poetry of stories as magical things that her mother Theodora Kroeber found in native American tales. This worldly wisdom applied to the romance of other planets, and to human nature at its deepest, is Le Guin's particular gift to us, and something science fiction will always be proud of. Try it and see – you will never think about people in quite the same way again. | |
| [1]: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/may/14/science-fiction-authors-choice" | |
| The Dead Zone,Stephen King,1979,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81630W,"The Dead Zone is a science fiction thriller novel by Stephen King published in 1979. The story follows Johnny Smith, who awakens from a coma of nearly five years and, apparently as a result of brain damage, now experiences clairvoyant and precognitive visions triggered by touch. When some information is blocked from his perception, Johnny refers to that information as being trapped in the part of his brain that is permanently damaged, ""the dead zone."" The novel also follows a serial killer in Castle Rock, and the life of rising politician Greg Stillson, both of whom are evils Johnny must eventually face. | |
| Though earlier King books were successful, The Dead Zone was the first of his novels to rank among the ten best-selling novels of the year in the United States. The book was nominated for the Locus Award in 1980 and was dedicated to King's son Owen. The Dead Zone is the first story by King to feature the fictional town of Castle Rock, which serves as the setting for several later stories and is referenced in others. The TV series Castle Rock takes place in this fictional town and makes references to the Strangler whom Johnny helped track down in The Dead Zone. | |
| The Dead Zone is King's seventh novel and the fifth under his own name. The book spawned a 1983 film adaptation as well as a television series." | |
| L'Île mystérieuse,Jules Verne,1870,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1099915W,"This sequel to ""20,000 Leagues Under The Sea"" doesn't advertise itself as such. Most of the book concerns the efforts of a group of hot-air balloon castaways in the south Pacific ocean attempting to use modern knowledge in order to survive in near-desert-island conditions. ""Robinson Crusoe"" (Defoe, 1719) started a trend of survival tales that lasts in some respects to this day and ""Island"" (1874) is Verne's contribution to that body of work. In my estimate, no film so far has done this book justice." | |
| The Stand,Stephen King,1978,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81618W,"One man escapes from a biological weapon facility after an accident, carrying with him the deadly virus known as Captain Tripps, a rapidly mutating flu that - in the ensuing weeks - wipes out most of the world's population. In the aftermath, survivors choose between following an elderly black woman to Boulder or the dark man, Randall Flagg, who has set up his command post in Las Vegas. The two factions prepare for a confrontation between the forces of good and evil. | |
| ([source][1]) | |
| [1]: https://stephenking.com/library/novel/stand_the.html" | |
| The Man in the High Castle,"Philip K. Dick, Michelle Charrier",1962,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2172403W,"The Man in the High Castle is an alternate history novel by American writer Philip K. Dick. Published and set in 1962, the novel takes place fifteen years after an alternative ending to World War II, and concerns intrigues between the victorious Axis Powers—primarily, Imperial Japan and Nazi Germany—as they rule over the former United States, as well as daily life under the resulting totalitarian rule. The Man in the High Castle won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1963. Beginning in 2015, the book was adapted as a multi-season TV series, with Dick's daughter, Isa Dick Hackett, serving as one of the show's producers. | |
| Reported inspirations include Ward Moore's alternate Civil War history, Bring the Jubilee (1953), various classic World War II histories, and the I Ching (referred to in the novel). The novel features a ""novel within the novel"" comprising an alternate history within this alternate history wherein the Allies defeat the Axis (though in a manner distinct from the actual historical outcome)." | |
| Catching Fire,Suzanne Collins,2009,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5735360W,"Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be. Gale holds her at an icy distance. Peeta has turned his back on her completely. And there are whispers of a rebellion against the Capitol—a rebellion that Katniss and Peeta may have helped create. | |
| Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest that she's afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her even more is that she's not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can't prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying. | |
| In Catching Fire, the second novel of the Hunger Games trilogy, Suzanne Collins continues the story of Katniss Everdeen, testing her more than ever before . . . and surprising readers at every turn." | |
| A Wizard of Earthsea,Ursula K. Le Guin,1968,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL59798W,"The first novel of Ursula K. Le Guin's must-read Earthsea Cycle. ""The magic of Earthsea is primal; the lessons of Earthsea remain as potent, as wise, and as necessary as anyone could dream."" (Neil Gaiman) | |
| Ged was the greatest sorcerer in Earthsea, but in his youth he was the reckless Sparrowhawk. In his hunger for power and knowledge, he tampered with long-held secrets and loosed a terrible shadow upon the world. | |
| This is the tumultuous tale of his testing, how he mastered the mighty words of power, tamed an ancient dragon, and crossed death's threshold to restore the balance. | |
| With stories as perennial and universally beloved as The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of The Rings—but also unlike anything but themselves—Ursula K. Le Guin’s Earthsea novels are some of the most acclaimed and awarded works in literature. They have received accolades such as the National Book Award, a Newbery Honor, the Nebula Award, and many more honors, commemorating their enduring place in the hearts and minds of readers and the literary world alike. | |
| Join the millions of fantasy readers who have explored these lands. As The Guardian put it: ""Ursula Le Guin's world of Earthsea is a tangled skein of tiny islands cast on a vast sea. The islands' names pull at my heart like no others: Roke, Perilane, Osskil ." | |
| Foundation and Empire,Isaac Asimov,1945,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46224W,"Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire still the mightiest force in the Galaxy even in its death throes. When an ambitious general determined to restore the Empire's glory turns the vast Imperial fleet toward the Foundation, the only hope for the small planet of scholars and scientists lies in the prophecies of Hari Seldon." | |
| The Amber Spyglass,Philip Pullman,1900,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL28996W,"In the astonishing finale to the His Dark Materials trilogy, Lyra and Will are in unspeakable danger. With help from Iorek Byrnison the armored bear and two tiny Gallivespian spies, they must journey to a dank and gray-lit world where no living soul has ever gone. All the while, Dr. Mary Malone builds a magnificent Amber Spyglass. An assassin hunts her down, and Lord Asriel, with a troop of shining angels, fights his mighty rebellion, in a battle of strange allies—and shocking sacrifice. | |
| As war rages and Dust drains from the sky, the fate of the living—and the dead—finally comes to depend on two children and the simple truth of one simple story." | |
| Segunda Fundação,Isaac Asimov,1953,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46309W,"After years of struggle, the Foundation lay in ruins -- destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. But it was rumored that there was a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy, established to preserve the knowledge of mankind through the long centuries of barbarism. The Mule had failed to find it the first time -- but now he was certain he knew where it lay. | |
| The fate of the Foundation rests on young Arkady Darell, only fourteen years old and burdened with a terrible secret. As its scientists girded for a final showdown with the Mule, the survivors of the First Foundation began their desperate search. They too wanted the Second Foundation destroyed... before it destroyed them." | |
| Stranger in a Strange Land,Robert A. Heinlein,1961,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL59688W,"Stranger in a Strange Land is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians. The novel explores his interaction with—and eventual transformation of—terrestrial culture. The title is an allusion to the phrase in Exodus 2:22. According to Heinlein, the novel's working title was The Heretic. Several later editions of the book have promoted it as ""The most famous Science Fiction Novel ever written""." | |
| The man who ended war,Hollis Godfrey,1908,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL96214W,"The Secretary of War of the United States receives a letter sent to his and all other nations, declaring that war has too long devastated the earth and the time has come for peace. It orders them to destroy their weapons of warfare and disband their militaries. The letter ends: ""One year from this date will I allow for disarmament and no more. At the end of that time, if no heed has been paid to my injunction, I will destroy, in rapid succession, every battleship in the world. By the happenings of the next two months you shall know that my words are the words of truth."" It is signed ""The man who will stop all war."" | |
| The government officials at first dismiss this as a letter from a crank. Then a few battleships vanish, one per week, without a trace. What new technology enables this man to carry out his threat? Can he be found and stopped? Will the major powers of the world agree to disarm or will they blame each other and start a war? | |
| Recipe: Take an American investigative reporter, add his science professor friend and the professor's beautiful intelligent sister, throw in some early 20th century quasi-science, some romantic longing, some detective work in London, and a good measure of suspense." | |
| Flowers for Algernon,Daniel Keyes,1966,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL515754W,"Until he was thirty-two, Charlie Gordon --gentle, amiable, oddly engaging-- had lived in a kind of mental twilight. He knew knowledge was important and had learned to read and write after a fashion, but he also knew he wasn't nearly as bright as most of the people around him. There was even a white mouse named Algernon who outpaced Charlie in some ways. But a remarkable operation had been performed on Algernon, and now he was a genius among mice. Suppose Charlie underwent a similar operation..." | |
| Firestarter,Stephen King,1980,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81623W,"Firestarter is a science fiction-horror thriller novel by Stephen King, first published in September 1980. In July and August 1980, two excerpts from the novel were published in Omni. In 1981, Firestarter was nominated as Best Novel for the British Fantasy Award, Locus Poll Award, and Balrog Award. | |
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| Also contained in: | |
| [Ominbus](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL25080326W)" | |
| Star Maker,Olaf Stapledon,1937,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3290739W,"After reading ""Last and First Men"", I approached Olaf's next masterpiece, ""Star Maker"" ( first published in 1937), with some disbelief as to how on earth he could possibly better the span, pathos and magnanimity he had already laid out. A quick scan of the appendices yielded the impression that this book would embrace not just the tiny fragment of history that was mankind's stay in the universe, but that all history of the universe would be described, and that of other universes too. All of this in less pages than ""Last and First Men""! My immediate reaction was simply, ""No way, Jose"" and I wondered how he was going to set about such an immense task. The vehicle used was, of course, the best man has going for him - his imagination. A contemplative man is whisked off on an imaginary journey through space and time by an ever-gathering mass consciousness. He describes how galaxies of stars formed from nebulae that were born flying apart from each other, how these cooling nebulae condensed into galaxies of stars, and how the rare occurrences of young stars that passed each other, formed planets, and how, on a few rare planets, intelligent life evolved. He shows how certain conditions inhibit the appearance of life, or intelligent life, and how certain evolutionary pathways cause life to stagnate or wipe itself out. He puts mankind's existence into perspective in both universal time and space. | |
| There are touching moments and there are exciting battles. There is both tragedy and comedy. There are uplifting victories and crushing defeats. Far from being stuffy, this book is really a very good read indeed, considering the scope of its subject. The final few short chapters really have you reading a couple of paragraphs, and then putting the book down to have a long ponder over what has just been addressed. And the book's climax leaves you with lifelong matters to mull over - one of these being, ""Boy, and I thought I was pretty intelligent...""" | |
| Tales of space and time,H. G. Wells,1899,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL52211W,"Tales of Space and Time collects together two novellas and three short stories by the great science fiction writer H. G. Wells. First published in 1899, this absorbing and stimulating read contains:The Crystal Egg (short story)The Star (short story)A Story of the Stone Age (novella)A Story of the Days To Come"" (novella)The Man Who Could Work Miracles (short story)" | |
| The Lost World,Michael Crichton,1995,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46876W,"The Lost World is a 1995 techno-thriller novel written by Michael Crichton, and the sequel to his 1990 novel [Jurassic Park](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46881W). It is his tenth novel under his own name and his twentieth overall, and it was published by Knopf. A paperback edition (ISBN 0-345-40288-X) followed in 1996. In 1997, both novels were re-published as a single book titled Michael Crichton's Jurassic World, which is unrelated to the 2015 film of the same name. | |
| Contains: | |
| [Lost World [2/2]](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL25311005W) | |
| Also contained in: | |
| [Michael Crichton's Jurassic World](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14950507W)" | |
| Mockingjay,Suzanne Collins,2010,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15413843W,"Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what's worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss's family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting, this is the thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collins's groundbreaking Hunger Games trilogy. - Publisher." | |
| The Chessmen of Mars,Edgar Rice Burroughs,1922,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1418244W,"SHEA had just beaten me at chess, as usual, and, also as usual, I had gleaned what questionable satisfaction I might by twitting him with this indication of failing mentality by calling his attention to the nth time to that theory, propounded by certain scientists, which is based upon the assertion that phenomenal chess players are always found to be from the ranks of children under twelve, adults over seventy-two or the mentally defective - a theory that is lightly ignored upon those rare occasions that I win." | |
| The Illustrated Man,Ray Bradbury,1901,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL103128W,The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of eighteen science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. A recurring theme throughout the eighteen stories is the conflict of the cold mechanics of technology and the psychology of people. It was nominated for the International Fantasy Award in 1952. | |
| "So long, and thanks for all the fish",Douglas Adams,1984,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163719W,"Preceded by: [Life, the Universe and Everything][1] | |
| So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish is the fourth book of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ""trilogy"" written by Douglas Adams. Its title is the message left by the dolphins when they departed Planet Earth just before it was demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, as described in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. | |
| Followed by: [Mostly Harmless][3] | |
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| Also contained in: | |
| - [The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts][4] | |
| - [The More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide][5] | |
| - [Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163706W) | |
| [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163716W | |
| [2]: http://www.douglasadams.com/creations/0671745530.html | |
| [3]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163718W | |
| [4]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163692W | |
| [5]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163713W" | |
| Last and First Men,Olaf Stapledon,1930,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3290731W,"One of the most succinct and accurate renderings of mankind's present state of mind and future progression. It documents the future of man from the start of WW2 and continues until the Sun engulfs the earth, and beyond. Considering this book was first published in 1931, it is remarkable, both in its honesty as regards human nature, and in its phenomenal span. By the time we reach chapter 3 of the 16 in this book, it is already 2300 AD and you feel like you have had the viewpoint of a God. So intense is the writing, that a few pages can take you hours to read and weeks to think about. What a writer, what a visionary. Of particular interest to me was the laconic way he can sum up an entire country's culture and people, and the accuracy of prediction in the first part of the book. | |
| Points to note :- | |
| All budding politicians should be forced to read this book. It should be part of any politics curriculum. | |
| Strikingly accurate and plausible portent of homo sapiens future. Read in the context of 2002, it is easy to see mankind's current folly and the extrapolation of current scientific endeavours. For example, we may achieve global peace (""An Americanised Planet"""") for a few millennia, but at the cost of spiritual and intellectual freedom and development. When the ""Fall of the First Men"" happened, recovery took a very long time :- | |
| ""Later, when the epidemic was spent, even though civilisation was already in ruins, a concerted effort of devotion might yet have rebuilt it on a more modest plan. But among the First Men, only a minority had ever been capable of wholehearted devotion. The great majority were by nature too much obsessed by private impulses."" | |
| Sounds like the malaise of current homo sapiens. | |
| The theme of continual physical exertion and constant movement of attention as an underpinning for the lifestyles of all successful social inhabitants was beautifully described. This is so true of today's and future societies. No pause for reflection or contemplation. The abandonment of philosophy as a science in the future. The pig-headed clinging to pagan artefact or idol worship, rather than logic. | |
| The brilliant description of the ""Second Men"", with his finer array of senses, and his natural propensity for altruism. | |
| The plausible evolution of intelligent life on Mars in 10 million years time, with the subsequent misunderstanding of what is intelligent between Earth and Mars. | |
| Man's creation of more evolved forms of man meshes brilliantly with current genetic research. | |
| ""Time travel"" achieved by mental regression into past minds. The future remains unknown. | |
| Conclusions :- | |
| Apply common sense to the situation as it is now, to work out the best course of action. Never invoke traditions or old beliefs as these threaten your survival in an ever-changing environment. | |
| Within the same species, organisms are equally complex biochemically. Therefore, any social structure that imposes arbitrary division within the species, is intrinsically flawed. This is true of current homo sapiens organisation, where certain people are far more highly regarded than others for stupid reasons, and divisions between cliques of people usually erupt in violence, rather than heated debate. | |
| Just because someone cannot be convinced of your way of seeing things, doesn't mean that physical coercion becomes necessary. | |
| ""Live and let live"" doesn't mean live it up and let the rest live in squalor. | |
| Nothing should be regarded as taboo, save that which is unnatural. | |
| There are absolutely no restrictions on what anyone can think. | |
| If you can have it, then anyone can have it." | |
| Childhood’s End,Arthur C. Clarke,1953,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17415W,"Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by British author Arthur C. Clarke. The story follows the peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival ends all war, helps form a world government, and turns the planet into a near-utopia. Many questions are asked about the origins and mission of the aliens, but they avoid answering, preferring to remain in their ships, governing through indirect rule. Decades later, the Overlords eventually show themselves, and their impact on human culture leads to a Golden Age. However, the last generation of children on Earth begin to display powerful psychic abilities, heralding their evolution into a group mind, a transcendent form of life." | |
| The Martian,"Andy Weir, R.C. Bray",2011,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17091839W,"The Martian is a 2011 science fiction novel written by Andy Weir. It was his debut novel under his own name. It was originally self-published in 2011; Crown Publishing purchased the rights and re-released it in 2014. The story follows an American astronaut, Mark Watney, as he becomes stranded alone on Mars in 2035 and must improvise in order to survive." | |
| The Scarlet Plague,Jack London,1910,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL74485W,"It is the year 2072, sixty years on from the scarlet plague that decimated the earth's population. As one of the few who knew life before the plague, James Howard Smith tries to impart what he knows to his grandsons while he still can. Jack London's visionary post-apocalyptic novel The Scarlet Plague was written in 1912." | |
| The Blazing World,Margaret Cavendish,2013,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL31960339W,"<p>A young lady is abducted by sea and finds herself transported into a new world where the blazing stars make night as bright as day. She marries the world’s Emperor, becoming Empress, and through consultation with many creatures and immaterial spirits she elaborates on contemporary scientific and philosophical topics.</p> <p>The story presents the view that a society with a unified language and religion can be made orderly under the rule of a benevolent monarch. <a href=""https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/margaret-cavendish"">Margaret Cavendish</a>, the Duchess of Newcastle, plays her own part in the story by providing advice and showing the Empress around her own world.</p> <p><i>The Blazing World</i> was written in 1666, a few years after the restoration of the British monarchy. With its fantastic setting, the book is considered an early forerunner of the science fiction genre.</p>" | |
| American Gods,Neil Gaiman,2001,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL679360W,"American Gods (2001) is a fantasy novel by British author Neil Gaiman. The novel is a blend of Americana, fantasy, and various strands of ancient and modern mythology, all centering on the mysterious and taciturn Shadow." | |
| The Adventures of Captain Underpants,Dav Pilkey,1997,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14871228W,"When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen." | |
| The Dispossessed,Ursula K. Le Guin,1974,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL59863W,"Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the civilized universe. To do this dangerous task will mean giving up his family and possibly his life. Shevek must make the unprecedented journey to the planet, Anarres, to challenge the complex structures of life and living, and ignite the fires of change." | |
| On Writing,Stephen King,1999,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81601W,"On Writing is both a textbook for writers and a memoir of Stephen's life and will, thus, appeal even to those who are not aspiring writers. If you've always wondered what led Steve to become a writer and how he came to be the success he is today, this will answer those questions. | |
| ([source][1]) | |
| [1]: https://stephenking.com/library/nonfiction/on_writing_a_memoir_of_the_craft.html" | |
| A Canticle for Leibowitz,Walter M. Miller Jr.,1959,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2626638W,"Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as ""sacred books"". The monks preserve for centuries what little science there is, and have saved the science texts and blueprints from destruction many times, also making beautifully illuminated copies. As the story opens to a world run on a basically fuedal lines, science is again becoming fashionable, as a hobby of rich men, at perhaps 18th or early 19th century level of comprehesion. A local lord, interested in science, comes to the monastery. What happens after that is an exquisitely told tale, stunning and extremely moving, totally different from any other After the Holocaust story" | |
| Ubik,Philip K. Dick,1969,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2172454W,"Named one of Time's 100 Best Books, Ubik is a mind-bending, classic novel about the perception of reality from Philip K. Dick, the Hugo Award-winning author of The Man in the High Castle. “From the stuff of space opera, Dick spins a deeply unsettling existential horror story, a nightmare you’ll never be sure you’ve woken up from.”—Lev Grossman, Time Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business — deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and placed in “half-life,” a dreamlike state of suspended animation. Soon, though, the surviving members of the team begin experiencing some strange phenomena, such as Runciter’s face appearing on coins and the world seeming to move backward in time. As consumables deteriorate and technology gets ever more primitive, the group needs to find out what is causing the shifts and what a mysterious product called Ubik has to do with it all. “More brilliant than similar experiments conducted by Pynchon or DeLillo.”—Roberto Bolaño" | |
| "Looking Backward, 2000-1887",Edward Bellamy,1888,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2981506W,"A man being put into a hypnotic sleep, is awakened 113 years later to an entirely new social structure." | |
| The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time Book 1),Robert Jordan,1990,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL7924103W,"The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow." | |
| Sphere,"Michael Crichton, Jacques Polanis",1980,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46917W,"Sphere is a 1987 novel by Michael Crichton, his sixth novel under his own name and his sixteenth overall. | |
| 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. The novel begins as a science fiction story but quickly transforms into a psychological thriller, developing into an exploration of the nature of the human imagination. | |
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| See also: | |
| - [Sphere](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18169959W/Sphere) | |
| Also contained in: | |
| - [Congo / Sphere / Eaters of the Dead][2] | |
| [1]: http://www.michaelcrichton.com/sphere/ | |
| [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14950504W/Congo_Sphere_Eaters_of_the_Dead" | |
| Dragonflight,Anne McCaffrey,1968,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL73387W,"HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD?To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father and took over his lands. Now the time has come for Lessa to shed her disguise--and take back her stolen birthright. But everything changes when she meets a queen dragon. The bond they share will be deep and last forever. It will protect them when, for the first time in centuries, Lessa's world is threatened by Thread, an evil substance that falls like rain and destroys everything it touches. Dragons and their Riders once protected the planet from Thread, but there are very few of them left these days. Now brave Lessa must risk her life, and the life of her beloved dragon, to save her beautiful world. . . .From the Paperback edition." | |
| Triplanetary,"E. D. Smith, Edward Elmer Smith, Frederick E. Smith, E. E. Smith, Edward E. Smith, “Doc” E.E. Smith, E. E. "Doc" Smith, E. E. Smith, E.E. ""Doc Smith, Edward Elmer Smith, Edward ""Doc"" Smith, Edward Doc"" Smith",1948,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2685469W,"Lensman series, Book 1 of 7 | |
| Even back before the first bits of this story hit the newsstands, the folks who published it in Amazing Stories (January through April, 1934) knew they were on to something special. ""We are sure that our readers will be highly pleased to have us give the first installment of a story by Dr. Smith. It will continue for several numbers and is a worthy follower of the Skylark stories which were so much appreciated by our readers. We think that they will find this story superior to the earlier ones. Dr. Smith certainly has the narrative power, and that, joined with his scientific position, makes him an ideal author for our columns."" An awful lot has gone under the bridge since 1934, but you know, the folks at Amazing were on to something. Triplanetary really is all that special, and we're thrilled to offer it to you now anew. | |
| Amazon.com Review | |
| This is the first of E. E. ""Doc"" Smith's seven Lensman books, and although it isn't as fast-paced as later Lensman novels, it sets the stage for what is perhaps the greatest space-opera saga ever told. Through a series of vignettes spanning millions of years, readers will learn how the titanic struggle between the good Arisians and the evil Eddorians first came to pass, and about how humanity was chosen (and bred) to assume the awesome power of the lens. A short foreword by science fiction scholar John Clute puts the entire series into perspective. | |
| Review | |
| HUGO Finalist for Best Science Fiction All-Time Series --Science Fiction Digest" | |
| Dune Messiah,"Frank Herbert, Michel Demuth",1969,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL893526W,"**Book Two in the Magnificent Dune Chronicles—the Bestselling Science Fiction Adventure of All Time** | |
| Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known—and feared—as the man christened Muad’Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne—and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence. | |
| And even as House Atreides begins to crumble around him from the machinations of his enemies, the true threat to Paul comes to his lover, Chani, and the unborn heir to his family’s dynasty..." | |
| Solaris,Stanisław Lem,1962,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL109524W,"The cult-classic by Stanislaw Lem that spawned the movie is now available for your Kindle! Until now the only English edition was a 1970 version, which was translated from French and which Lem himself described as a ""poor translation."" This wonderful new English translation (by Bill Johnston) of Lem's classic Solaris is a must-have for fans of Lem's classic novel. | |
| Telling of humanity's encounter with an alien intelligence on the planet Solaris, the 1961 novel is a cult classic, exploring the ultimate futility of attempting to communicate with extra-terrestrial life. | |
| When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the living physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others examining the planet, Kelvin learns, are plagued with their own repressed and newly corporeal memories. The Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates these incarnate memories, though its purpose in doing so is unknown, forcing the scientists to shift the focus of their quest and wonder if they can truly understand the universe without first understanding what lies within their hearts." | |
| Armageddon 2419 A.D.,Philip Francis Nowlan,1962,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19919659W,Sin resumen | |
| Prey,Michael Crichton,2002,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL46883W,"Prey is a novel by Michael Crichton, his thirteenth under his own name and twenty-third overall, first published in November 2002, making his first novel of the twenty-first century. The novel serves as a cautionary tale about developments in science and technology; in this case, nanotechnology, genetic engineering, and distributed artificial intelligence. | |
| The book features relatively new advances in the computing/scientific community, such as artificial life, emergence (and by extension, complexity), genetic algorithms, and agent-based computing. Fields such as population dynamics and host-parasite coevolution are also at the heart of the novel. | |
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| Contains: | |
| [Prey [1/2]](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL28766164W) | |
| [Prey [2/2]](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL28766161W) | |
| Also contained in: | |
| [Reader's Digest Condensed Books](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL26430990W)" | |
| "Life, the Universe and Everything",Douglas Adams,1900,science_fiction,https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163623W,"Life, the Universe and Everything is the third book in the five-volume Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy science fiction ""trilogy"" by British writer Douglas Adams. The title refers to the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. | |
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| Also contained in: | |
| - [Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts][1] | |
| - [Hitchhiker's Trilogy](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163696W) | |
| - [More Than Complete Hitchhiker's Guide][2] | |
| - [Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163706W) | |
| [1]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163692W | |
| [2]: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2163713W" | |