The Consolidator Or, Memoirs Of Sundry Transactions From The World In The Moon
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30 science fiction books to read after The Consolidator Or, Memoirs Of Sundry Transactions From The World In The Moon, by Daniel Defoe, the closest match first.
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1. The Man In The Moone
by Francis Godwin
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Godwin was Bishop of Hereford, and this extraordinary story was discovered among his papers after his death. Read today it is hard to realise what an amazing work it was,...
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2. Somnium
by Johannes Kepler
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Following the Copernican Revolution, Kepler was probably the most important astronomer in the story of our understanding of the Solar System. He worked with Tycho Brahe and became court astronomer...
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3. The Gods Themselves (1973)
by Asimov, Isaac
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In the 2070s, a scientist realises that a sample of tungsten has turned into plutonium that cannot exist in our universe. His discovery leads to the Electron Pump, which gives...
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4. Ice
by Shane Johnson
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Like Stephen Baxter, Johnson imagines that the Apollo programme continued. In this case, Apollo 19 arrives at a point on the Moon where ice has been detected, but when it...
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5. The Strange Case Of Dr Jeckyll And Mr Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
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What we learned from Jeckyll and Hyde is that Frankenstein's monster is in all of us. Taking elements from the real-life case of Deacon Brodie, a respectable cabinet maker who...
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6. Micromegas
by Francois Voltaire
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The name means "Little, Big", and like Gulliver's encounters with the Lilliputians and Brobdingnagians, there is a lot of play with issues of scale. But it is a very different...
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7. The Battle Of Dorking
by George Tomkyns Chesney
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In the middle years of the 19th century, Prussia embarked on a series of military adventures against Denmark, Austria and finally France which succeeded in uniting the German states under...
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8. After London Or Wild England
by Richard Jefferies
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One of Mary Shelley's late novels, The Last Man, envisaged a world ravaged by plague in which humanity is wiped out. Although not well received at the time, the romantic...
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9. New Atlantis
by Francis Bacon
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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...
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10. The Twentieth Century
by Albert Robida
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Robida was an illustrator and caricaturist more than a novelist, which is just as well because it is the many charming illustrations for this book that have survived better than...
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11. The Journey Of Niels Klim To The World Underground
by Ludvig Holberg
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Throughout the 18th century, there was a vogue for stories about other worlds inside our own. In time, these would give rise to Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of...
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12. News From Nowhere
by Morris, William
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At the start of The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, a bunch of characters assemble, most of them identified only by their job: the local mayor, the journalist, and so...
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13. Mundus Alter Et Idem
by Joseph Hall
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Usually translated as "Another World and yet the Same", Bishop Hall's book has been claimed as the first anti-utopia. Coming less than a century after Thomas More wrote his seminal...
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14. Comical History Of The States And Empires Of The Moon And Sun
by Cyrano De Bergerac
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First published, in a bowdlerised form, after the death of Cyrano de Bergerac, the two parts of the book are incomplete, probably because they were considered too heretical and too...
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15. The First Men In The Moon
by Wells, H. G.
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First Men in the Moon was the last of the great run of genre-defining scientific romances that Wells wrote in the first years of his career, it is also the...
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16. Luna: New Moon
by Ian Mcdonald
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Ian McDonald's diptych, Luna: New Moon and its forthcoming sequel, Luna: Wolf Moon, is the first full-blooded description of a lunar colony that science fiction has seen for decades. It's...
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17. A Fall Of Moondust
by Clarke, Arthur C.
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This is one of those short, intense novels that encapsulates all the dangers of life on the space frontier in one gripping episode. In this case, a cruise ship on...
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18. From The Earth To The Moon & Around The Moon
by Verne, Jules
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Talking of scientific knowledge, one of the fascinating things about this early account of a journey to the Moon is that Verne dispatches his space voyagers from a base not...
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19. Steel Beach
by John Varley
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Alien invaders have obliterated human life on Earth, and the survivors have scattered through the rest of the Solar System. The most heavily populated colony is Luna, the Steel Beach...
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20. The Ceres Solution
by Bob Shaw
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There has been a theory put about that the Moon's gravitational influence played a part in the development of intelligence on Earth; here, Bob Shaw turns that idea on its...
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21. Moon Is Hell, The & Green World, The
by John W. Campbell Jr.
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Before he became the most influential editor in the history of science fiction, Campbell was an author of remarkable, scientifically savvy stories that clearly presaged the golden age he helped...
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22. The Moon Maid
by Burroughs, Edgar Rice
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Omnibus fixup of: 1. "Moon Maid" (1923) 2. "The Moon Men" (1925) 3. "The Red Hawk" (1925) Originally all serialized in *Argosy All-Story Weekly*
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23. Moonfall
by Mcdevitt, Jack
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One of the things we see time and again on this list is that the Moon is very often presented as a threat, whether it's the threat of invasion in...
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24. Trouble With Tycho
by Clifford D. Simak
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Like Rogue Moon, which came out at around the same time, and presaging Arthur C. Clarke's 2001, A Space Odyssey in odd ways, this is a novel about the Moon...
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25. Griffin's Egg
by Swanwick, Michael
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If many of the stories we've included on this list treat the Moon as a threat, there are equally those, like The Moon is a Harsh Mistress or Steel Beach,...
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26. L'autre Monde
by Cyrano De Bergerac
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We said earlier that Godwin's The Man in the Moone was one of the most influential works in the history of science fiction, and this is one of the earliest...
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27. Lunar Justice
by Charles L. Harness
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If you want to see how much sf from the last quarter of the 20th century ignored the technical realities of the Moon, look no further than this sometimes absurd...
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28. Double Planet/reunion
by John Gribbin
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John Gribbin and Marcus Chown are two highly respected science writers who occasionally turn their talents, and their expertise, to science fiction. So you know that what you are going...
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29. The Moonbase Saga
by Ben Bova
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For the last 30 years, Ben Bova has been composing an intricately interconnected sequence of novels that explore the human colonisation of the entire solar system. Inevitably, the Moon plays...
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30. Farside Cannon
by Roger Macbride Allen
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This is yet another novel with the Moon as threat, and another which plays with the idea of the dark side of the Moon. In this instance a superweapon is...
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