How did authors imagine the future twenty or more years ago? Read one of these classic science fiction novels to find out.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Arthur Dent, a refugee from the late planet Earth and his pal from the planet Betelgeuse, Ford Prefect, thumb their way thru comic misadventures throughout the Universe. |
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I, Robot The author tells of the development robots through a series of interlinked stories: from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future--a future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete. |
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Ender's Game Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive. |
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The White Mountains Young Will Parker and his companions make a perilous journey toward an outpost of freedom where they hope to escape from the ruling Tripods, who capture mature human beings and make them docile, obedient servants. |
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? After a future World War kills millions, all living creatures are coveted. To fill the void, scientists create incredible androids of animals and even people. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans could wreak, the government banned them from Earth. But when androids didn't want to be identified, they just blended in. Rick Deckard was an officially sanctioned bounty hunter whose job was to find rogue androids, and to retire them. But cornered, androids tended to fight back, with deadly results. |
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Eva After a terrible accident, a young girl wakes up to discover that she has been given the body of a chimpanzee. |
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A Wrinkle in Time Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government. |
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Stranger in A Strange Land After his arrival on Earth from his home on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith becomes the founder and pastor of a new religious sect. |
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The Running Man Ben Richards is a contestant on the most popular television game show, The Running Man. The winner earns fame and fortune; the loser earns death. |
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House of Stairs Five sixteen-year-old orphans of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in a house of endless stairs as subjects for a psychological experiment on conditioned human response. |
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