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• Frankenstein

  Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851

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  Is the monster truly a monster, or did the people around him force him to be one?

• Flatland

  a Romance of Many Dimensions

  Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 1838-1926

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  A mind bending book about a life lived in two dimensions.

• The Time Machine

  Wells, H. G. (Herbert George), 1866-1946

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  A traveler to the distant future searches for what has become of humanity.

• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

  Verne, Jules, 1828-1905,

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  Adventure under the waves with the brilliant and frightening Captain Nemo.

• Brave New World

  Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963

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  A look at a dark future in which humans are hatched in incubators and conditioned to accept their roles.

• I, Robot

  Asimov, Isaac, 1920-1992

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  If we create robots that are self-aware, what kind of freedoms should they have? What is our responsibility towards them? Can a machine be a slave?

• Fahrenheit 451

  Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012

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  In a society that believes in burning books, is there room for individual thought?

• A Canticle for Leibowitz

  Miller, Walter M., 1923-1996-

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  In the distant future North America, monks struggle to preserve knowledge and connection to the past.

• Flowers for Algernon

  Keyes, Daniel

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  An experimental procedure transforms a humble janitor into a genius. But will it last? This moving story makes us think about how we value each other.

• Babel-17

  Delany, Samuel R.

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  Humanity faces the threat of a possible alien invasion. But is that what is actually happening? Can we learn to communicate well enough to prevent a war?

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

  Dick, Philip K.

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  If androids look exactly like humans, how do you tell the difference? Should you even try? The movie Blade Runner is based on this book.

• The Left Hand of Darkness

  Le Guin, Ursula K., 1929-

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  On the planet Winter, the inhabitants are all the same gender. When they apply to join the Coalition of Planets, they must cope with the strange divisions of humans into men and women.

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

  Adams, Douglas, 1952-2001

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  Adams' beloved comic masterpiece about despair, hope, forgiveness, and the importance of always having a towel.

• The Handmaid's Tale

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  What would happen if most women became infertile? A terrifying look at a society in which women are treated as property.

• Ender's Game

  Card, Orson Scott

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  Ender is a brilliant child, enlisted to train as a soldier against an alien enemy. Follow his transformation, and his puzzlement over what is really going on.

• Jurassic Park

  a Novel

  Crichton, Michael, 1942-2008

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  Gene manipulation creates dinosaurs! What's not to love? But did scientists focus too much on whether they could do it, and not enough on whether they should?

• Parable of the Sower

  Butler, Octavia E,

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  The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicted to violence. Can one woman survive? Can she change our future?

• Redshirts

  Scalzi, John, 1969-

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  This spaceship is always having big adventures. Somehow, the bridge crew always survives, but for the lower decks crew, life is grim. What's really going on?

• The Martian

  a Novel

  Weir, Andy

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  One man, left behind in a storm and stranded in Mars. Can he use his skill and ingenuity to survive? Can he somehow make it back home?

• The Three-body Problem

  Liu, Cixin,

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  This acclaimed novel mixes hard science and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and asks us to think about what is real versus what we believe.