Books like Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
12 books with a reading profile close to Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley. Deep and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, science fiction
A Square, a mathematician and resident of a two-dimensional world, narrates his discovery of higher spatial realities.
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Heretics of Dune
Also deep · philosophy, dense
Fifteen hundred years after the death of the Tyrant, humanity returns from the Scattering to a transformed galaxy.
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Foundation
by Isaac Asimov
Also deep · philosophy, science fiction
The Galactic Empire has ruled millions of worlds for twelve thousand years, but its internal systems are rotting.
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1984
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, science fiction
In 1948, George Orwell envisioned a future where the Party exercises total dominion over the fictional superstate Oceania.
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We
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, science fiction
D-503 is a mathematician and the chief engineer of the Integral, a spacecraft designed to bring the ideology of the One State to other planets.
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Childhood’s End
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, science fiction
The narrative begins with the sudden arrival of massive alien starships over Earth’s major cities.
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Brave New World
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, science fiction
In a future World State, the population is decanted in hatcheries and predestined into a rigid caste system ranging from Alphas to Epsilons.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, science fiction
Set in a radioactive, post-apocalyptic San Francisco, the narrative follows Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter tasked with retiring six runaway Nex-7 androids.
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Anathem
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, dense
On the planet Arbre, scholars known as avout live in monastic communities called concents, cut off from the outside world, devoting themselves to mathematics, philosophy, and science, with only brief gatherings with out…
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Man and Superman
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, dense
In this four-act drama, George Bernard Shaw uses the character of John Tanner, an intellectual revolutionary, to argue that women are the primary pursuers in human courtship.
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Foundation and Empire
by Isaac Asimov
philosophy, science fiction
In the second installment of the Foundation series, Hari Seldon’s mathematical predictions face two distinct threats.
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Stranger in a Strange Land
Also deep · philosophy, science fiction
Valentine Michael Smith is a human born on Mars and raised by its ancient, non-human inhabitants.
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