Books like The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts
12 books with a reading profile close to The Original Hitchhiker Radio Scripts by Douglas Adams. Outward-looking and escapist; a moderate read.
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Life, the Universe and Everything
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect navigate the galaxy after being stranded on prehistoric Earth for several years.
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And Another Thing...
by Eoin Colfer
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Arthur Dent, Ford Prefect, Tricia McMillan, and Random wake up from a simulated reality on Earth to find a Vogon fleet preparing to demolish the planet once again.
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Don't Panic : The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Also escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Arthur Dent’s morning begins with his house being bulldozed for a bypass and ends with the Earth’s demolition by a Vogon constructor fleet to make way for a hyperspace expressway.
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3001: The Final Odyssey
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Frank Poole, the astronaut killed by the computer HAL 9000 in the first installment, is recovered from the vacuum of space a millennium later.
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Snow Crash
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
In a near-future Los Angeles partitioned into sovereign corporate franchises, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizzas for the Mafia and hacks within the Metaverse, a three-dimensional virtual reality landscape he helped build.
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Fantastic Voyage
by Isaac Asimov
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
In this Cold War science fiction novel, a team of five specialists undergoes a radical miniaturization process to enter the bloodstream of a dying scientist.
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We3
Also escapist · science fiction, experimental
"We3" follows three household pets—a golden retriever named Bandit, a cat named Tinker, and a rabbit named Pirate—who have been surgically encased in robotic exoskeletons and weaponized by a secret military program.
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The Algebraist
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Fassin Taak, a slow-life seeker, travels into the atmosphere of the gas giant Nasqueron to locate a legendary set of coordinates.
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Foundation and Chaos
by Greg Bear
Also escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Set within the Second Foundation Trilogy, this novel follows Hari Seldon as he defends his theories of psychohistory during a formal trial on the capital world of Trantor.
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The Swarm
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Off the coast of Norway, a new species of aggressive worms destroys methane hydrate deposits, destabilizing the continental shelf.
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11
The Tommyknockers
by Stephen King
Also escapist · entertainment, science fiction
In the town of Haven, Maine, fiction writer Bobbi Anderson discovers a metallic object buried in the earth behind her house.
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State of Fear
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, science fiction
Environmental lawyer Peter Evans becomes entangled in a global conspiracy when he discovers that a radical group is orchestrating catastrophic weather events to simulate the effects of climate change.
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