Books like Utopia
30 science fiction books to read after Utopia, by Thomas More, the closest match first.
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1. From The Earth To The Moon
by Verne, Jules
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Of all the works of translated science fiction, there can be few rivals for the mass and continuing popularity of Jules Verne's extraordinary voyages. Between 1863 and his death in...
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2. The Time Ship
by Enrique Gaspar
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Before the end of the 19th century, everyone who travelled in time did so by falling asleep or being transported by magic, devices which gave the traveller no control over...
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3. Thus Were Their Faces
by Silvina Ocampo
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Silvina Ocampo was the wife of Adolfo Bioy Casares and friend of Jorge Luis Borges, so it is easy to anticipate what sort of fiction she wrote. But as this...
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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. The Narrative Of Arthur Gordon Pym
by Edgar Allan Poe
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Hugo Gernsback defined scientifiction as "the Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Edgar Allen Poe type of story". Poe was a very varied writer, associated with romantic and gothic fiction, one...
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15. Looking Backward 2000-1887
by Edward Bellamy
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If The Time Machine was, in part, a response to News from Nowhere by William Morris, then News from Nowhere was in turn a response to Looking Backward. Morris didn't...
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16. The Coming Race
by Edward Bulwer-lytton
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the first Baron Lytton, financed his extravagant lifestyle by writing a string of best selling if often pot boiling novels. Titles like The Last Days of Pompeii and...
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17. Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins
by Robert Paltock
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A reviewer at the time described this novel as "the illegitimate offspring" of Gulliver's Travels and Robinson Crusoe, which is a reasonable if not exactly precise description of the book,...
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18. Nova Solyma
by Samuel Gott
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The most characteristic aspect of the science fiction we all know is that it is set in the future. Far and away the vast majority of science fiction stories are...
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19. The Icosameron
by Giacomo Casanova
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Finally, one to avoid: Yes, that Casanova. The famous libertine was also an author, who somehow found time between his innumerable conquests to write this 1,700-page novel. It's another hollow...
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20. The Sfwa European Hall Of Fame
by Morrow, James
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Short stories are often a great way for readers to discover new writers, so they are often a key route by which non-Anglophone writers can reach an English readership. Even...
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21. Labyrinths
by Jorge Luis Borges
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Labyrinths, a collection of ficciones and other short pieces from several of Borges's earlier books, was the first opportunity the mass of English speakers had to encounter the work of...
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22. Troll: A Love Story
by Johanna Sinisalo
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One of the things that should make fiction in translation so appealing to science fiction readers is that the stories are often built around very different cultures, traditions, and assumptions ...
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23. Nest Of Worlds
by Marek S. Huberath
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To illustrate the problems associated with translation, this novel was a major success in its native Poland, but even though there was a very fine translation already in existence by...
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24. Three Science Fiction Novellas: From Prehistory To The End Of Mankind
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Rosny was the pseudonym of the Belgian writer, Joseph-Henri Boëx, who rivals his near contemporary, H.G. Wells, as one of the founding figures of European science fiction. Or at least,...
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25. The Cusanus Game
by Wolfgang Jeschke
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By the middle of this century, Northern Europe is a nuclear wasteland, with economic and political consequences that threaten the whole of human civilisation. In Italy, a young woman is...
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26. Harmony
by Project Itoh
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Like China, Japan has one of the liveliest science fiction scenes in the world, and one of the least known in the West. Very few Japanese science fiction writers have...
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27. The Angel Maker
by Stefan Brijs
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In a small village at the point where the Dutch, Belgian and German borders meet, a strange doctor arrives with three even stranger children. Slowly, as we come to understand...
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28. The End Of Days
by Jenny Erpenbeck
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Over the last few years a distinct strand of alternate history writing has appeared in which a woman lives and relives her life multiple times during the twentieth century. Leading...
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29. Niels Klim's Underground Travels
by Ludvig Holberg
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Ludvig Holberg was a Norwegian philosopher and playwright whose only novel this was. A utopian satire that poked fun at a lot of contemporary issues, it would have created an...
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30. The Invention Of Morel
by Adolfo Bioy Casares
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Adolfo Bioy Casares was the lifelong friend and occasional collaborator of Jorge Luis Borges, but he was also a considerable writer of fantastic literature in his own right, and nothing...
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