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Books like The Island of Dr. Moreau

12 books with a reading profile close to The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.

  1. 1 Foundation and Empire

    Foundation and Empire

    by Isaac Asimov

    philosophy, science fiction

    In the second installment of the Foundation series, Hari Seldon’s mathematical predictions face two distinct threats.

  2. 2 Second Foundation

    Second Foundation

    by Isaac Asimov

    philosophy, science fiction

    The narrative tracks the pursuit of a hidden group of mentalic experts tasked with steering the Seldon Plan back onto its mathematical course.

  3. 3 Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

    Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

    by Edwin A. Abbott

    philosophy, science fiction

    A Square, a mathematician and resident of a two-dimensional world, narrates his discovery of higher spatial realities.

  4. 4 The World Set Free

    The World Set Free

    by H.G. Wells

    philosophy, science fiction

    Written in 1914, this narrative predicts the discovery of artificial radioactivity and the invention of continuous atomic explosions.

  5. 5 The Time Machine

    The Time Machine

    by H.G. Wells

    philosophy, science fiction

    In 1895 London, an unnamed Victorian inventor constructs a crystalline vehicle capable of traversing the fourth dimension.

  6. 6 Rocannon’s World

    Rocannon’s World

    by Ursula K. Le Guin

    science fiction, classic literature

    Rocannon, an ethnologist for the League of All Worlds, becomes stranded on a primitive planet when a rebel faction destroys his survey ship.

  7. 7 Fahrenheit 451

    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.

  8. 8 Earth Abides

    Earth Abides

    by George R. Stewart

    science fiction, classic literature

    Isherwood Williams emerges from the California mountains to find a swift-moving plague has decimated the human population.

  9. 9 Stranger in a Strange Land

    Stranger in a Strange Land

    by Robert A. Heinlein

    philosophy, science fiction

    Valentine Michael Smith is a human born on Mars and raised by its ancient, non-human inhabitants.

  10. 10 Anthem

    Anthem

    by Ayn Rand

    philosophy, science fiction

    Equality 7-2521 lives in a primitive future where the word "I" is forbidden.

  11. 11 Cat’s Cradle

    Cat’s Cradle

    by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

    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.

  12. 12 Childhood’s End

    Childhood’s End

    by Arthur C. Clarke

    philosophy, science fiction

    The narrative begins with the sudden arrival of massive alien starships over Earth’s major cities.

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