Books like The World Set Free
12 books with a reading profile close to The World Set Free by H.G. Wells. Outward-looking; a moderate read.
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The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells
Also outward-looking · philosophy, narrative
In 1895 London, an unnamed Victorian inventor constructs a crystalline vehicle capable of traversing the fourth dimension.
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Foundation. Part 1, The Psychohistorians
by Isaac Asimov
philosophy, narrative
Hari Seldon, a mathematician in the waning Galactic Empire, uses psychohistory to calculate the inevitable collapse of human civilization.
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Stranger in a Strange Land
philosophy, narrative
Valentine Michael Smith is a human born on Mars and raised by its ancient, non-human inhabitants.
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Childhood’s End
philosophy, narrative
The narrative begins with the sudden arrival of massive alien starships over Earth’s major cities.
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Second Foundation
by Isaac Asimov
Also outward-looking · 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.
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
by H.G. Wells
narrative, science fiction
Edward Prendick survives a shipwreck in the South Pacific and finds himself stranded on a remote volcanic island.
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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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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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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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10
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 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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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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