The Masters

5 best books like The Masters (C.P. Snow): Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, The Venetian Years, The Future is Female! Women's Science Fiction Stories from the Pulp Era to the New Wave, Ghost Wife: A Memoir of Love and Defiance, The Chain of Chance

Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

Author	Walker Percy
ISBN	0312253990

I have read and reread this book half a dozen times. No doubt that number will reach a dozen or more during the course of my lifetime. It is, first of all, absolutely hilarious: a subtler, non-narrative, written precursor to "I Heart Huckabees." Who are we? Why are we here? What is the problem of the Self...

The Venetian Years

Author	Giacomo Casanova
ISBN	1934997579

Born in 1725 to Italian and Spanish parentage, Giacomo Casanova lived a long and exciting life. As a scholar and an adventurer, he traveled widely throughout Europe and Russia associating with rulers and Kings. For a time he was in the service of the army and he became a great political stirrer. But he...

The Future is Female! Women's Science Fiction Stories from the Pulp Era to the New Wave

Author

Lisa Yaszek

Space-opera heroines, gender-bending aliens, post-apocalyptic pregnancies, changeling children, interplanetary battles of the sexes, and much more: a groundbreaking new collection of classic American science fiction by women from the 1920s to the 1960s

Warning: the visionary women...

Ghost Wife: A Memoir of Love and Defiance

Author

Michelle Dicinoski

Michelle Dicinoski has found the love of her life – and now she just wants to get married and live happily ever after. The only problem is, she's in love with an American woman, Heather, and neither Australia nor America recognises same-sex marriage. What to do when pride and prejudice – love and the...

The Chain of Chance

Author	Stanisław Lem
ISBN	0810117304

Written in the style of a detective novel, The Chain of Chance is classic Lem: a combination of action, hard science, and philosophical investigation. An ex-astronaut is hired to look into the death of several wealthy businessmen. The authorities suspect a pattern, but neither the police nor a supercomputer...