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The City and the Stars/The Sands of Mars

10 best books like The City and the Stars/The Sands of Mars (Arthur C. Clarke): Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited, The Door Into Summer, Time Enough for Love, Friday, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, The Demolished Man, Borders of Infinity, Endymion

Stranger in a Strange Land
AuthorRobert A. Heinlein
ISBN0441788386
Apparently a classic of the sci-fi cannon, I'd never heard of this book until it came up on a book club here. It took me a long time to read only because of lack of time, and a rather annoying trait the author has that I'll go into later.

This is one of those books that tells us more about the period it...
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
AuthorRobert A. Heinlein
ISBN0340837942
It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of a former penal colony on the Moon against its masters on the Earth. It is a tale of a culture whose family structures are based on the presence of two men for every woman, leading to novel forms of marriage and family. It is the story of the disparate people, a computer...
Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited
AuthorAldous Huxley
ISBN0060776099
The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future--of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently...
The Door Into Summer
AuthorRobert A. Heinlein
ISBN0345413997
It is 1970, and electronics engineer Dan Davis has finally made the invention of a lifetime: a household robot with extraordinary abilities, destined to dramatically change the landscape of everyday routine. Then, with wild success just within reach, Dan's greedy partner and even greedier fiancée...
Time Enough for Love
AuthorRobert A. Heinlein
Was Robert A. Heinlein a dirty old man?

Yes.

But he was also a visionary who saw the trends of Western Civilization and expounded out into a foreseeable future, not just in terms of science fiction but also in regard to cultures, morals, sociology and ideology. Time Enough for Love demonstrates...
Friday
AuthorRobert A. Heinlein
ISBN0345414004
Friday is a secret courier. She is employed by a man known to her only as "Boss." Operating from and over a near-future Earth, in which North America has become Balkanized into dozens of independent states, where culture has become bizarrely vulgarized and chaos is the happy norm, she finds herself on...
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
AuthorPhilip K. Dick
ISBN1407247425
Dick at his wildest and strangest - a mystifying but brilliant book - SF: 100 Best Novels

In the overcrowded world and cramped space colonies of the late 21st century, tedium can be endured through the drug Can-D, which enables users to inhabit a shared illusory world. When industrialist Palmer...
The Demolished Man
AuthorAlfred Bester
ISBN1857988221
In a world in which the police have telepathic powers, how do you get away with murder?

Ben Reichs heads a huge 24th century business empire, spanning the solar system. He is also an obsessed, driven man determined to murder a rival. To avoid capture, in a society where murderers can be detected...
Borders of Infinity
AuthorLois McMaster Bujold
ISBN0671578294
A buddy read with Choko and Maria.

One of the biggest problem with modern series is to figure out the reading order. It is actually very easy for the authors to confuse their readers. Imagine somebody wrote an excellent trilogy with a perfect ending. Now the author realized (s)he has not done...
Endymion
AuthorDan Simmons
ISBN0553572946
Two hundred and seventy-four years after the fall of the WorldWeb in Fall of Hyperion, Raul Endymion is sent on a quest. Retrieving Aenea from the Sphinx before the Church troops reach her is only the beginning. With help from a blue-skinned android named A. Bettik, Raul and Aenea travel the river Tethys,...
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