Classic Sci-Fi Books That Still Resonate Today
Lindsay
A collection of the best in classic science fiction that still exerts huge influences of modern works.
As a huge fan of Blade Runner, Do Androids Dream occupies a place in my heart for being such a weird yet timely image of the future. As a tech-head with drawers full of unidentifiable cables, the idea of 'kipple' (tech-junk with a seemingly supernatural ability to multiply) has always stuck in my head as being particularly apt.
Lem's Cyberiad is one of the funniest books I've ever read, and the endlessly inventive & hilarious wordplay is all the more impressive for it being a translation.
Linked Books
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- The Cyberiad: Fables For The Cybernetic Age
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- Lem, Stanislaw
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- Solaris
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- Stanislaw, Lem
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- 2001: A Space Odyssey
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- C. Clarke, Arthur
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- Dune
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- Herbert, Frank
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- Foundation
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- Asimov, Isaac
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- The Complete Robot
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- Asimov, Isaac
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- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy : 42nd Anniversary Edition
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- Adams, Douglas
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- Babel-17
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- Delany, Samuel R.
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- A Scanner Darkly
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- Dick, Philip K.
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- The Great Science Fiction : The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, Short Stories
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- Wells, H. G.
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- The Dispossessed
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- Le Guin, Ursula K.
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- The Anubis Gates
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- Powers, Tim
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- Dhalgren
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- Delaney, Samuel
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- Fahrenheit 451
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- Bradbury, Ray
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- Woman on the Edge of Time : The classic feminist dystopian novel
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- Piercy, Marge
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- Kindred : The ground-breaking masterpiece
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- Butler, Octavia E.