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Nineteen Eighty-Four
1949 dystopian social science fiction novel by George Orwell
Frankenstein
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 Gothic novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature from different body parts in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18 and staying in Bath, 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.
Gulliver's Travels
1726 novel by Jonathan Swift
Brave New World
1932 novel by Aldous Huxley
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
1886 novella by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Clockwork Orange
1962 novel by Anthony Burgess
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
1979 novel by Douglas Adams
Never Let Me Go
2005 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
Flatland
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English theologian, Anglican priest and schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to satirise the class and gender hierarchies of Victorian society, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.
The Lost World
novel by Arthur Conan Doyle
Northern Lights
1995 novel by Philip Pullman
Life, the Universe and Everything
1982 novel by Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
1980 novel by Douglas Adams
Orlando: A Biography
1928 novel by Virginia Woolf
Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
1972 children's novel written by Roald Dahl
Fatherland
1992 novel by Robert Harris
Altered Carbon
2002 novel by Richard K. Morgan
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
1984 novel by Douglas Adams
Island
1962 novel by Aldous Huxley
The Man Who Was Thursday
1908 novel by G. K. Chesterton
The Poison Belt
novella by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Man in the Moone
1638 novel by Francis Godwin
The Coming Race
Vril: The Power of the Coming Race, originally published as The Coming Race, is a science and subterranean fiction novel by the British politician and writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton, published anonymously in 1871.
Klara and the Sun
2021 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Prestige
1995 novel by Christopher Priest
Perelandra
Perelandra (also titled Voyage to Venus in a later edition published by Pan Books) is the second book in the Space Trilogy of C. S. Lewis, set on the planet of Perelandra, or Venus. It was first published in 1943.
The Space Trilogy
series of three science fiction novels by C. S. Lewis, written from 1938-1945
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
1987 novel by Douglas Adams
George's Secret Key to the Universe
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Out of the Silent Planet
1938 novel by C. S. Lewis
Erewhon
thumb|right|400px|Map of part of New Zealand to illustrate Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited Erewhon: or, Over the Range () is a utopian novel by English writer Samuel Butler, first published in 1872, set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist. The book is a satire on Victorian society.
Last and First Men
1930 Olaf Stapledon science fiction novel
The Great God Pan
1894 novel by Arthur Machen
That Hideous Strength
1945 novel by C. S. Lewis
The Blazing World
1666 Margaret Cavendish story
Accelerando
Accelerando is a 2005 science fiction novel consisting of a series of interconnected short stories written by British author Charles Stross. As well as normal hardback and paperback editions, it was released as a free e-book under the CC BY-NC-ND license. Accelerando won the Locus Award in 2006, and was nominated for several other awards in 2005 and 2006, including the Hugo, Campbell, Clarke, and British Science Fiction Association Awards.
The Land of Mist
novel by Arthur Conan Doyle
Lord of the World
1907 novel by Robert Hugh Benson
A Voyage to Arcturus
novel by David Lindsay
Stand on Zanzibar
1968 novel by John Brunner
Revelation Space
2000 novel by Alastair Reynolds
News from Nowhere
novel by William Morris
Crash
1973 novel by J. G. Ballard
Tom's Midnight Garden
1958 novel by Philippa Pearce
The Black Cloud
1957 novel by Fred Hoyle
Shikasta
Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta (often shortened to Shikasta) is a 1979 science fiction novel by Doris Lessing, and is the first book in her five-book Canopus in Argos series. It was first published in the United States in December 1980 by Alfred A. Knopf, and in the United Kingdom in November 1979 by Jonathan Cape. Shikasta is also the name of the fictional planet featured in the novel.
High-Rise
1975 novel by J. G. Ballard
Perdido Street Station
2000 novel by China Miéville
The Scar
2002 novel by China Miéville
Non-Stop
1958 science fiction novel by Brian Aldiss
Behold the Man
1969 novel by Michael Moorcock
Star Maker
1937 novel by Olaf Stapledon
The House on the Borderland
novel by William Hope Hodgson
Hothouse
novel by Brian W. Aldiss
The Maracot Deep
novel by Arthur Conan Doyle
Iron Council
2004 novel by China Miéville
Scrivener's Moon
2011 Book by Philip Reeve
The Long Earth
Science fiction novel by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
A Modern Utopia
novel by H. G. Wells
A Web of Air
2010 novel by Philip Reeve