Books like Brave New World
12 books with a reading profile close to Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Deep, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1984
Also deep and contemplative · 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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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, science fiction
Shevek is a physicist living on Anarres, a barren moon where a society of Odonian anarchists survives through collective labor and the rejection of private property.
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3
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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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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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, science fiction
Guy Montag is a fireman in a future society where the government mandates the destruction of all printed literature.
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Cat’s Cradle
Also deep · philosophy, science fiction
John, a narrator seeking to document what prominent Americans did on the day Hiroshima was bombed, travels to the impoverished Caribbean island of San Lorenzo.
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Solaris
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, science fiction
Psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at a research station hovering above Solaris, a planet entirely covered by a sentient, gelatinous ocean.
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The dark tower, and other stories
by C.S. Lewis
Also deep and contemplative · science fiction, literary
This posthumous collection centers on an unfinished sequel to Out of the Silent Planet, titled The Dark Tower.
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Slaughterhouse-Five The Children's Crusade
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, science fiction
Billy Pilgrim, an ill-suited American chaplain’s assistant, survives the 1945 firebombing of Dresden as a prisoner of war held in an underground meat locker.
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Island
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary
The story follows Will Farnaby, a cynical journalist who shipwrecks on the forbidden Pacific island of Pala.
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11
Measure for Measure
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary
Duke Vincentio departs Vienna under a pretext of travel, leaving the puritanical Angelo to enforce long-ignored moral laws.
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Machines like Me
by Ian McEwan
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, science fiction
In a version of 1982 where Britain lost the Falklands War, Alan Turing is alive and artificial intelligence has advanced a long way.
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