Books like Micromegas
12 books with a reading profile close to Micromegas by Voltaire. Outward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Foundation
by Isaac Asimov
Also outward-looking · 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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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Also outward-looking 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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Foundation and Empire
by Isaac Asimov
Also outward-looking · philosophy, science fiction
In the second installment of the Foundation series, Hari Seldon’s mathematical predictions face two distinct threats.
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
by H. G. Wells
philosophy, science fiction
After surviving a shipwreck, Edward Prendick is rescued and taken to a remote volcanic island inhabited by the vivisector Dr.
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Childhood’s End
Also 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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The World Set Free
by H.G. Wells
Also outward-looking · philosophy, science fiction
Written in 1914, this narrative predicts the discovery of artificial radioactivity and the invention of continuous atomic explosions.
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Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
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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The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
Also outward-looking · philosophy, science fiction
In 1895 London, an unnamed Victorian inventor constructs a crystalline vehicle capable of traversing the fourth dimension.
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Cat’s Cradle
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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We
Also 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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Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
Also thought-provoking · philosophy, science fiction
Aldous Huxley depicts a future World State where biological engineering and psychological conditioning replace natural birth and individual thought.
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