Ahead of Time: Sci-fi with that will make you think

Explore mind-bending sci-fi books about time that challenge your perspective. Discover thought-provoking stories that will leave you questioning reality.

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Valis

by Philip K. Dick

Horselover Fat begins receiving what he considers to be divine revelations that imply extraterrestrial forces are interfering in the affairs of the Earth.
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More Than Human

by Theodore Sturgeon

In this genre-bending novel—among the first to have launched sci-fi into the arena of literature—one of the great imaginers of the twentieth century tells a …
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Schismatrix plus : includes Schismatrix and selected stories from Crystal Express

by Bruce Sterling

Here is a definitive edition of one of the most beloved worlds in science fiction--fans will love it. In the last decade, Bruce Sterling has …
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The Stars My Destination

by Alfred Bester

In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand miles with a single thought, where the rich barricade themselves …
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

by Haruki Murakami

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 1Q84 and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle comes a relentlessly inventive novel that dives deep into the …
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

by Robert A. Heinlein

Science fiction-roman.
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Neuromancer

by William Gibson

Case, a nerve-damaged data thief, is recruited by a new employer for a last-chance run against a powerful artificial intelligence.
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Snow Crash

by Neal Stephenson

The “brilliantly realized” (The New York Times Book Review) breakthrough novel from visionary author Neal Stephenson, a modern classic that predicted the metaverse and inspired …
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Perdido Street Station

by China Miéville

Fantasy-roman.
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Naked lunch

 

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The Glass Bead Game

by Hermann Hesse

Setting his story in the distant, post-Holocaust future, Hesse tells of an elite cult of intellectuals occupying themselves with an elaborate game that employs all …
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Riddley Walker, Expanded Edition

by Russell Hoban

This acclaimed story is set in an England that has suffered a nuclear holocaust. Society has regressed to an Iron Age, semi-literate state represented by …
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Gun, With Occasional Music

by Jonathan Lethem

Twenty-first-century private detective Conrad Metcalf has a dead doctor on his hands, a monkey on his back, and a kangaroo in his waiting room in …
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

by Cory Doctorow

Realizing his boyhood dream of moving to the twentieth-century artistic creation of Disney World, Jules becomes incensed by a new group that would change the …
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Otherland: City of Golden Shadow

by Tad Williams

Science fiction-roman.
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Slapstick or Lonesome No More!

by Kurt Vonnegut

“Some of the best and most moving Vonnegut.”—San Francisco Chronicle Slapstick presents an apocalyptic vision as seen through the eyes of the current King of …
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The World of Null-A

by A. E. van Vogt

Presents the science fiction classic set in the year 2650, where the Games Machine--twenty-five thousand electronic brains--sets the course of people's lives.
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Sailor song

 

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The Star Diaries

by Stanisław Lem

Ijon Tichy encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride.
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Dune

by Frank Herbert

• DUNE: PART TWO • THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE Directed by Denis Villeneuve, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel Dune …
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The Holy Bible

by National Publishing Company

Presents the King James version of the Bible.