Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence

5 best books like Science Fiction and Philosophy: From Time Travel to Superintelligence (Susan Schneider): Bright Dead Things, The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People, Godless Morality: Keeping Religion Out of Ethics, The Heaven Makers, Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

Bright Dead Things

Author	Ada Limon
ISBN	1571314717

Bright Dead Things examines the chaos that is life, the dangerous thrill of living in a world you know you have to leave one day, and the search to find something that is ultimately “disorderly, and marvelous, and ours.”

A book of bravado and introspection, of 21st century feminist swagger...

The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People

Author	Neil Shubin
ISBN	0307378438

**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**

From one of our finest and most popular science writers, and the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our solar system billions of years ago embedded...

Godless Morality: Keeping Religion Out of Ethics

Author	Richard Holloway
ISBN	0862419093

(3.5) A clear, convincing and compassionate case for why the Bible should not be the basis of societal morality. You might assume this would come from one of the New Atheists, but nope – Holloway was the Bishop of Edinburgh at the time he wrote this. His arguments are along the lines of: Christians have...

The Heaven Makers

Author	Frank Herbert
ISBN	0345344588

The Chem, immortal aliens, were the prisoners of eternity, gripped by the despair that immortality brought...strange dwellers in a timeless world that brought terror and suffering to the creatures they manipulated. Enter their world of infinite possibility and discover the fascinating secrets...

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

Author	Michio Kaku
ISBN	0385530803

Imagine, if you can, the world in the year 2100.

In Physics of the Future, Michio Kaku—the New York Times bestselling author of Physics of the Impossible—gives us a stunning, provocative, and exhilarating vision of the coming century based on interviews with over three hundred of the...