Books like Dune Messiah
12 books with a reading profile close to Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert. Deep and open-ended; a moderate read.
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Children of Dune
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, dense
Nine years after Paul Atreides walked into the desert, his twin children, Leto II and Ghanima, face a fracturing empire.
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God Emperor of Dune
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, dense
Set thirty-five hundred years after the reign of Paul Atreides, the narrative follows Leto II, a human-sandworm hybrid who maintains absolute control over the galaxy.
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Anathem
Also deep and open-ended · 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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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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Roadside Picnic
Also deep · philosophy, science fiction
The narrative follows Redrick Schuhart, a professional stalker who illegally ventures into the Zone, one of several locations on Earth littered with mysterious debris following a brief extraterrestrial visit.
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The Lathe of Heaven
Also deep · philosophy, science fiction
George Orr lives in a future Portland where his dreams physically alter reality.
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The Book of Strange New Things
by Michel Faber
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, science fiction
Peter Leigh, a dedicated Christian pastor, leaves his wife Beatrice on a crumbling, disaster-stricken Earth to travel to the planet Oasis.
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Essays of three decades
by Thomas Mann
Also deep · philosophy, dense
This collection brings together sixteen of Mann’s non-fiction pieces written between 1911 and 1937, focusing on the intellectual heritage of Europe.
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A Scanner Darkly
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, science fiction
Bob Arctor is a narcotics agent living undercover in a drug-addicted suburban household in a near-future California.
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Ubik
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, science fiction
In 1992, Glen Runciter runs a corporate security agency that employs inertials to neutralize the telepathic powers of industrial spies.
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Sprawl (Necromancer) Series
Also deep · dense, science fiction
The Sprawl series follows Henry Dorsett Case, a data thief hired by a mysterious entity to bypass the ice securing a massive artificial intelligence.
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The Left Hand of Darkness
Also deep and open-ended · philosophy, science fiction
Genly Ai arrives on the frozen planet Gethen as an envoy representing the Ekumen, a coalition of human worlds.
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