Books like The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
12 books with a reading profile close to The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein. Outward-looking and escapist; a moderate read.
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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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Earth is Room Enough
by Isaac Asimov
narrative, science fiction
This collection of fifteen short stories and two poems focuses on the idea that humanity does not need to colonize the stars to find conflict or wonder.
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3
When the World Screamed
Also outward-looking and escapist · narrative, science fiction
Professor Challenger posits that the Earth is a living organism, a colossal echinoderm with a sensitive cortex protected by the planetary crust.
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The Invisible Man
by H.G. Wells
narrative, science fiction
Griffin, a brilliant but mentally unstable scientist, arrives at a quiet village wrapped in bandages and hiding behind dark spectacles.
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Starship Troopers
Also outward-looking · narrative, science fiction
Juan Rico enlists in the Mobile Infantry to earn his right to vote in a global society where full citizenship requires a term of federal service.
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The War of the Worlds
by H.G. Wells
Also outward-looking and escapist · narrative, science fiction
The narrative follows an unnamed protagonist in Surrey as massive metallic cylinders land across the English countryside.
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Nightfall
by Isaac Asimov
narrative, science fiction
On the planet Kalgash, six suns provide perpetual daylight, ensuring that the concept of darkness is unknown to its inhabitants.
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Planet of the Apes
narrative, science fiction
Journalist Ulysse Mérou travels to the star Betelgeuse with a small crew and lands on a world where the biological roles of primates and humans are reversed.
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The Invisible Man
by Len Jenkin, Herbert George Wells
Also outward-looking · narrative, science fiction
In this stage adaptation of the H.G.
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The Chrysalids
by John Wyndham
narrative, science fiction
Set in the post-apocalyptic settlement of Waknuk, the story follows David Strorm, a boy raised in a rigid fundamentalist society that pathologically fears genetic mutation.
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Alas, Babylon
by Pat Frank
Also outward-looking · narrative, science fiction
Randy Bragg lives a quiet life in Fort Repose, Florida, until his brother, an intelligence officer, warns him that nuclear war is imminent.
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12
From the Earth to the Moon
by Jules Verne
Also outward-looking · narrative, science fiction
In the aftermath of the American Civil War, bored ballistics experts from the Baltimore Gun Club find themselves without a conflict to fuel their technical ambitions.
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