Books like Foundation's Edge
12 books with a reading profile close to Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov. Outward-looking; a moderate read.
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Foundation. Part 1, The Psychohistorians
by Isaac Asimov
philosophy, narrative
Hari Seldon, a mathematician in the waning Galactic Empire, uses psychohistory to calculate the inevitable collapse of human civilization.
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2
Time Enough For Love
philosophy, narrative
Lazarus Long, a man over two thousand years old, concludes his era of space travel and genetic survival by seeking a permanent death.
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Foundation's Fear
Also outward-looking · narrative, science fiction
In this prequel to the original series, Hari Seldon maneuvers through the dangerous bureaucracy of Trantor while seeking the post of First Minister under Emperor Cleon I.
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The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
Also outward-looking · philosophy, narrative
In 1895 London, an unnamed Victorian inventor constructs a crystalline vehicle capable of traversing the fourth dimension.
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5
The World Set Free
by H.G. Wells
Also outward-looking · philosophy, narrative
Written in 1914, this narrative predicts the discovery of artificial radioactivity and the invention of continuous atomic explosions.
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Stranger in a Strange Land
philosophy, narrative
Valentine Michael Smith is a human born on Mars and raised by its ancient, non-human inhabitants.
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Contact
by Carl Sagan
philosophy, narrative
Radio astronomer Ellie Arroway detects a structured signal originating from the star Vega, transmitted in a sequence of prime numbers.
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The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
by Claire North
philosophy, narrative
Harry August is a kalachakra, a man who lives his life in a loop.
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9
Ender's war
narrative, science fiction
Ender’s War is an omnibus collection containing the military science fiction novels Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead.
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Superman: Red Son
by Mark Millar
Also outward-looking · narrative, science fiction
In this alternate history, Kal-El’s escape pod lands on a Soviet collective farm in 1938 instead of rural Kansas.
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The Day of the Triffids
by John Wyndham, Marcel Battin
Also outward-looking · narrative, science fiction
Bill Masen wakes in a London hospital with his eyes bandaged, missing a spectacular celestial display that has blinded almost everyone on Earth.
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Also outward-looking · philosophy, narrative
Stephen Greenblatt centers his narrative on Poggio Bracciolini, a fifteenth-century papal secretary and book hunter who discovered a rare manuscript of Lucretius’s "De Rerum Natura" in a remote German monastery.
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