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Top 25 Post Human Science Fiction Books (cover not available)

Top 25 Post Human Science Fiction Books

In 1859, prompted by the similar ideas being developed by Alfred Russell Wallace, Charles Darwin finally published On the Origin of Species, perhaps the most revolutionary book in the history...

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New Atlantis

New Atlantis

Francis Bacon was a scientist to his fingertips, one of the very first to argue for the primacy of experiment, and so devoted to his own observations that he died...

Francis Bacon Buy on Amazon
Islands In The Net

Islands In The Net

Imagine the world as an alternate 1985, where Whitney Houston's ubiquitous voice, those eyeball-raping neon colors, leg warmers, Kirk Cameron's ubiquitous face didn't exist. Actually, anything would have been better...

Bruce Sterling Buy on Amazon
The Eyre Affair

The Eyre Affair

Imagine the world as an alternate 1985, where Whitney Houston's ubiquitous voice, those eyeball-raping neon colors, leg warmers, Kirk Cameron's ubiquitous face didn't exist. Actually, anything would have been better...

Jasper Fforde Buy on Amazon
Galapagos

Galapagos

It was in the isolated environment of the Galapagos Islands that Charles Darwin made the observations that were crucial to the development of his ideas of natural selection, and it...

Kurt Vonnegut Buy on Amazon
The Dream Master

The Dream Master

Expanded from the Nebula Award winning novella, "He Who Shapes", this is a story about using dreams to both escape and change the world. Charles Render is the inventor of...

Roger Zelazny Buy on Amazon
A Wrinkle In Time

A Wrinkle In Time

A Wrinkle in Time is a science fiction fantasy novel by American writer Madeleine L'Engle, first published in 1962. It is about Meg And Charles Walence. Their father, who was...

Madeleine L'engle Buy on Amazon
The Difference Engine

The Difference Engine

In our top 25 dystopian list, we called him the King of Cyberpunk. In this delicious alternate history, steam punk offering, Gibson teams up with Bruce Sterling to serve up...

William Gibson Buy on Amazon
Saturn's Children

Saturn's Children

Stross himself calls this novel a "space opera and late period Heinlein tribute", referring to Heinlein's Friday. A Charles Stross sci-fi novel is always an entertaining read, and the cover...

Charles Stross Buy on Amazon
The Paradox Men

The Paradox Men

Space opera is all about big concepts, what Brian Aldiss has called "wide screen baroque", and they don't come much wider or more baroque than The Paradox Men. Like much...

Charles L. Harness Buy on Amazon
Service Model

Service Model

Task Item No. 1: Become Self-Aware Meet Charles™, the latest in robot servant technology. Programmed to undertake the most menial household chores, Charles is loyal, efficient and logical to a...

Adrian Tchaikovsky Buy on Amazon
Accelerando

Accelerando

Ever since the computer became a fixture in the ordinary life of every one of us, it has been one of the most potent images in the idea of posthumanity....

Charles Stross Buy on Amazon
The Ghost Brigades

The Ghost Brigades

From the back cover: The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect...

John Scalzi Buy on Amazon
Mission Of Gravity

Mission Of Gravity

Hard science fiction in its purest form didn't have villains; the implacable laws of the universe were enemy enough for anyone. After all, who needs enemies when you're faced with...

Hal Clement Buy on Amazon
A Swiftly Tilting Planet

A Swiftly Tilting Planet

The Murry and OKeefe families enlist the help of the unicorn, Gaudior, to save the world from imminent nuclear war. In this companion volume to A Wrinkle In Time (Newbery...

Madeleine L'engle Buy on Amazon
A Wrinkle In Time

A Wrinkle In Time

The 1963 Newbery Award Winner, A Wrinkle in Time is a much-loved classic of the sci-fi genre. The first in the Time trilogy, which lated added two more books, it...

Madeleine L'engle Buy on Amazon
The Plot Against America

The Plot Against America

Philip Roth is one of the two or three leading American novelists from the second half of the twentieth century, whose work consistently explored the Jewish experience in modern America....

Philip Roth Buy on Amazon

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