Books like And Another Thing...
12 books with a reading profile close to And Another Thing... by Eoin Colfer. Outward-looking and escapist; a moderate read.
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The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
This book contains the complete scripts for the first twelve episodes of the BBC radio series, including the Primary and Secondary Phases.
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Life, the Universe and Everything
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect navigate the galaxy after being stranded on prehistoric Earth for several years.
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3001: The Final Odyssey
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Frank Poole, the astronaut killed by the computer HAL 9000 in the first installment, is recovered from the vacuum of space a millennium later.
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We3
Also escapist · science fiction, experimental
"We3" follows three household pets—a golden retriever named Bandit, a cat named Tinker, and a rabbit named Pirate—who have been surgically encased in robotic exoskeletons and weaponized by a secret military program.
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Snow Crash
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
In a near-future Los Angeles partitioned into sovereign corporate franchises, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizzas for the Mafia and hacks within the Metaverse, a three-dimensional virtual reality landscape he helped build.
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Fantastic Voyage
by Isaac Asimov
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
In this Cold War science fiction novel, a team of five specialists undergoes a radical miniaturization process to enter the bloodstream of a dying scientist.
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The Tommyknockers
by Stephen King
Also escapist · entertainment, science fiction
In the town of Haven, Maine, fiction writer Bobbi Anderson discovers a metallic object buried in the earth behind her house.
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Foundation and Chaos
by Greg Bear
Also escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Set within the Second Foundation Trilogy, this novel follows Hari Seldon as he defends his theories of psychohistory during a formal trial on the capital world of Trantor.
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The Algebraist
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Fassin Taak, a slow-life seeker, travels into the atmosphere of the gas giant Nasqueron to locate a legendary set of coordinates.
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10
Upgrade
by Blake Crouch
Also escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Logan Ramsay is a genetic enforcement agent working in a future where gene editing is strictly illegal following a global famine caused by a failed experiment.
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The Terminal Man
Also escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Harry Benson suffers from psychomotor epilepsy, a condition that triggers violent, uncontrollable seizures.
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Y: The Last Man, Vol. 2: Cycles
Also escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Yorick Brown and his capuchin monkey, Ampersand, travel across a desolate United States as the only two survivors of a global plague that killed every creature with a Y chromosome.
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