Books like The Lathe of Heaven
12 books with a reading profile close to The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin. Deep, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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The Book of Strange New Things
by Michel Faber
Also deep and thought-provoking · 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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Machines like Me
by Ian McEwan
Also deep and thought-provoking · 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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3
A Scanner Darkly
Also deep and thought-provoking · 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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4
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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5
The Word for World Is Forest
philosophy, science fiction
On the planet Athshe, human colonists from Earth have established a logging colony to strip the world of its timber.
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Yol
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, science fiction
A father and his son are the only characters who really matter in this novel.
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The Road
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, science fiction
An unnamed father and his young son walk southward through a scorched American landscape years after an unspecified cataclysm.
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8
The Last Question
by Isaac Asimov
Also deep · philosophy, science fiction
Isaac Asimov’s story begins in 2061 with a conversation between two technicians and a supercomputer named Multivac.
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The Left Hand of Darkness
Also deep and contemplative · 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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10
Einstein’s Dreams
Also deep and contemplative · philosophy, science fiction
Set in Bern, Switzerland, in 1905, this novel presents a series of thirty fictional dreams experienced by a young Albert Einstein while he works as a patent clerk.
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11
The Invention of Morel
by Adolfo Bioy Casares, Jorge Luis Borges
Also deep and thought-provoking · philosophy, science fiction
A fugitive on a remote, deserted island discovers he is not alone, but rather surrounded by a group of people who seem to be caught in a perpetual, unchangeable loop of their past.
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1984
Also deep and contemplative · 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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