Books like Herland
30 science fiction books to read after Herland, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the closest match first.
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1. Moving The Mountain
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Same series
- Same author
Reproduction of the original. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the public in...
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The Herland book 2
2. With Her In Ourland: Sequel To Herland
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman's sequel to Herland, in which the narrator brings his wife from an all-women's utopia to the United States and sees his own country through her eyes.
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3. The Skylark Series
by E. E. Smith
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The great innovation in American science fiction during the 1920s was the invention of the space opera, and that was largely down to E.E. "Doc" Smith. Sometime around 1916 he...
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4. A Voyage To Arcturus
by David Lindsay
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Science fiction has produced some pretty weird novels in its time, but there aren't many that can match A Voyage to Arcturus. It has had a major influence on writers...
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5. Metropolis
by Thea Von Harbou
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This is the novelisation of the film that Thea von Harbou wrote with her husband, Fritz Lang. It was the first feature-length science fiction film, the most expensive film made...
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6. Deluge
by S. Fowler Wright
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The idea of a drowned England had been a commonplace in British scientific romances since at least After London by Richard Jeffries, but it received its finest expression in Fowler...
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7. The Color Out Of Space
by Lovecraft, H. P.
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Throughout the 1920s and 30s, the science fiction and weird fiction that appeared in American genre magazines was often hard to tell apart. Weird fiction writers often used science fiction...
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8. When Worlds Collide
by Philip Wylie
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Not many science fiction writers have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but Kipling was the first member of this exclusive club. His finest science fiction is a pair of...
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9. With The Night Mail
by Rudyard Kipling
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Not many science fiction writers have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, but Kipling was the first member of this exclusive club. His finest science fiction is a pair of...
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10. It Can’t Happen Here
by Sinclair Lewis
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And here we have another Nobel Prize winning author of science fiction, though in this case Lewis flirted with genre in only one novel. But that novel is a classic....
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11. The Purple Cloud
by M. P. Shiel
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A so called last-man novel. A single man has survived and most of the novel are his meditations on humanity and the universe.
M.P. Shiel was a prolific author of excitable stories for the popular magazines of the day: he was, among other things, the person who gave us The Yellow Peril. But...
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12. The Hampdenshire Wonder
by J D Beresford
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This was the first novel to fully explore the consequences of the birth of homo superior. Victor Stott is born weak and awkward, with an enlarged head, and at first,...
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13. A Martian Odyssey
by Stanley Grauman Weinbaum
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A Martian Odyssey was Weinbaums first science fiction story; but within eighteen months he was dead, having written barely enough to make a collection. But with that first story he...
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14. The War Of The Worlds
by Wells, H. G.
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An example of the first contact between humanity and an alien race on the violent end of spectrum and crossing genres with Alien Invasion.
This is the only book on this list that doesn't actually set foot on Mars, so in a sense it's not a Martian novel at all. But it was the...
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15. The Iron Heel
by Jack London
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London succeeds in doing what many men have tried to do over the course of history, and almost every man has failed in doing: understanding how women think. Unlike most...
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16. We
by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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We was written in the immediate aftermath of the Russian Revolution, and though Zamyatin was himself a Bolshevik, the novel expressed his disquiet at the structuring of society that the...
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17. The Machine Stops
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This is a story about dependence on technology. Most humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth and below grand, life is governed by an omnipotent machine.
This short story is the only science fiction that the renowned novelist E.M. Forster ever wrote, but it continues to be read and applauded today. The story was written in...
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18. The Angel Of The Revolution
by George Griffith
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With the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Europe faced the prospect of a united Germany and a major shift in the delicate balance of power. As a result stories started to...
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19. Swastika Night
by Katharine Burdekin
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If there is one overused cliché in science fiction, it is the alternate history novel in which Hitler won the Second World War. But this is a novel about the...
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20. A Princess Of Mars
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
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In the latter years of the 19th century, astronomers detected lines on the surface of Mars, and before long these were being identified as irrigation canals, suggesting notm only that...
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21. The New World
by Stackpole, Micheal A.
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A startling look at the role of government, including eugenics.
The three grandchildren of the royal cartographer Qiro Anturasi, a mapmaker whose magic can reshape reality, must save their world from destruction. Nalenyr is besieged on all sides by those...
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22. R.u.r.
by Karel Capek
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Czech is hardly a widely spoken language, and in the years immediately after the First World War Czechoslovakia had barely gained its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire which had largely...
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23. Witch World
by Lackey, Andre Norton And Mercedes
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Simon Tregarth is a man on the run from various shadowy ruffians, people he associated with because he was wrongly convicted of working the black market while in the military....
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24. The Robot Stories
by Asimov, Isaac
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A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings,...
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25. The Cold Equations
by Tom Godwin
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These were the great years of the sf short story; magazines like Astounding, F&SF, Galaxy and If were in their pomp and most of the brilliant novels of the period...
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26. Who?
by Algis Budrys
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At the height of Cold War paranoia, Algis Budrys wrote a novel that perfectly captured the doubts and distrusts of the time. There is an explosion at an allied research...
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27. A Case Of Conscience
by James Blish
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A Jesuit investigates an alien race. The aliens have no religion, but have an innate sense of morality.
From Arthur C. Clarke's "The Star" to Walter M. Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz, there was something of a trend in the 1950s for bringing Catholicism into a science fiction...
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28. The Sirens Of Titan
by Kurt Vonnegut
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This is the novel in which we first encounter some of the themes and ideas that would later emerge in Slaughterhouse-Five. There are Tralfamadorians, there's the familiar resignation in the...
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29. The Body Snatchers
by Jack Finney
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Aliens replace the people of a California town with emotionless copies, the paranoid novel behind Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
If you had to name one science fiction movie that encapsulated America's national paranoia in the mid-50s it would have to be Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and this is...
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30. Childhood S End
by Clarke, Arthur C.
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An alien race invades Earth, but they are benevolent and a golden age begins on Earth.
You're going to hate me for this. Really. See, Clarke is one of the three giants of science fiction, old-school science fiction. He was writing this novel in 1953 at...
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