Books like Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
12 books with a reading profile close to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. Deep, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Cat’s Cradle
Also deep and open-ended · 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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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
Also deep and open-ended · 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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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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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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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Also deep · 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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Solaris
Also deep and open-ended · 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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Machines like Me
by Ian McEwan
Also deep and open-ended · 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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Il visconte dimezzato
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary
During a war against the Turks in Bohemia, a young nobleman, Viscount Medardo of Terralba, is split down the middle by a cannonball.
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Antigone
by Jean Anouilh
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, literary
Jean Anouilh's play, first staged in occupied Paris in 1944, retells Sophocles.
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Die Physiker
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, literary
The play takes place within the Les Cerisiers sanatorium, where three physicists reside as patients under the care of Dr.
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The dark tower, and other stories
by C.S. Lewis
Also deep and thought-provoking · 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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