How Science Shapes Science Fiction
By: Charles L. Adler
4.20
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Whether science fiction is exploring current realities, extrapolating from the present to create im…
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1. The Age Of Henry VIII
By: Dale Hoak
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
Professor Dale Hoak of The College of William and Mary delivers twenty-four lectures where in he tr… read more
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2. The Search for Exoplanets: What Astronomers Know
By: Joshua N. Winn
4.28
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
As recently as 1990, it seemed plausible that the solar system was a unique phenomenon in our galax… read more
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- audiobook
- nonfiction
- popular science
- physics
- science
3. From Yao to Mao: 5000 Years of Chinese History (Great Courses, #8320)
By: Kenneth J. Hammond
4.49
Format: None pages,
In a world growing increasingly smaller, China still seems a faraway and exotic land, with secrets … read more
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4. How Great Science Fiction Works (The Great Courses, #2984)
By: Gary K. Wolfe
3.44
Format: 198 pages, Audiobook
Robots, spaceships, futuristic megacities, planets orbiting distant stars. These icons of science f… read more
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- nonfiction
- literary criticism
- audiobook
5. Childhood’s End
By: Arthur C. Clarke
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city—intellectually, technologically, and militarily sup… read more
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"...a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"...no on of intelligence resents the inevitable."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"...no one of intelligence resents the inevitable."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
"Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias—boredom."-Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End
6. Two Necromancers, a Bureaucrat, and an Elf (The Unconventional Heroes #1)
By: L.G. Estrella
4.50
Format: 168 pages,
Two necromancers, a bureaucrat, and an elf - it sounds like the start of a bad joke, only the joke … read more
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7. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
By: Barbara W. Tuchman
3.99
Format: 272 pages,
Barbara W. Tuchman--the acclaimed author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic The Guns of August--… read more
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- nonfiction
8. King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
By: H. Rider Haggard
3.79
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines has entertained generations of readers since its first publ… read more
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"A sharp spear," runs the Kukuana saying, "needs no polish."-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
"Everything has an end, if only you live long enough to see it."-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
"When one can only do one thing well, one likes to keep up one’s reputation in that thing."-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
"Take what life can give you, Ana, and do not trouble about the offerings which are laid in the tombs for time to crumble."-H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)
9. An Economic History of the World since 1400
By: None
5.00
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Most of us have a limited understanding of the powerful role economics has played in shaping human … read more
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10. How to Read and Understand Shakespeare
By: Marc C. Conner
3.50
Format: 262 pages, Audible Audio
Shakespeare's works are among the greatest of humanity's cultural expressions and, as such, demand … read more
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11. Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
By: Connie Willis
4.03
Format: 578 pages, Mass Market Paperback
For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as si… read more
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"It is the end of the world. Surely you could be allowed a few carnal thoughts."-Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
"None of the things one frets about ever happen. Something one's never thought of does."-Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
"Kivrin reached out for Dunworthy's hand and clasped it tightly in her own. "I knew you'd come," she said, and the net opened."-Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
"No," she said. "No. It's only a bad time. A terrible time, but not everyone will die. And there will be wonderful times after this. The Renaissance and class reforms and music. Wonderful times. There…"-Connie Willis, Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
12. Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu
By: Stephen Turnbull , A.L. Sadler
4.04
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
One of the most successful rulers in Japanese history and one of the most cunning military strategi… read more
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13. The Story of Human Language
By: None
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Audiobook
"I never met a person who is not interested in language," wrote the bestselling author and psycholo… read more
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14. My Plain Jane (The Lady Janies, #2)
By: Brodi Ashton , Cynthia Hand , Jodi Meadows
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
You may think you know the story. After a miserable childhood, penniless orphan Jane Eyre embarks o… read more
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15. Ringworld (Ringworld, #1)
By: Larry Niven
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Pierson's puppeteers, three-leg two-head aliens find immense structure in unexplored part of the un… read more
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16. Heroes and Legends: The most influential characters of literature
By: Thomas A. Shippey
4.06
Format: 340 pages, Audiobook
Odysseus. Robinson Crusoe. Harry Potter. What do these memorable characters have in common? Why do … read more
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17. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
By: Matt Parker
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
An international bestseller The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math… read more
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- popular science
- science
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- audiobook
"If a new system is implemented, humans can be very resourceful when finding new ways to make mistakes."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Even when the data has made it into a database, it is not safe... which brings us, finally, to Microsoft Excel."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Now you can safely reply and say that nothing in the Gregorian calendar can happen less frequently than once every four hundred years. JUST FOR FUN."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"It's times like this when the age of the universe becomes a useful unit of measurement: 64-bit Unix time will last until twenty-one times the age of the universe from now - until (assuming we don't m…"-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
18. Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud
By: Becky Holmes
3.88
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
One woman's hilarious and fascinating quest to expose the truth behind fraudulent Twitter romance … read more
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- audiobook
19. The Science of Sci-Fi: From Warp Speed to Interstellar Travel
By: Erin Macdonald
3.93
Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio
Science fiction allows listeners to go places they can only dream of seeing—other worlds, distant s… read more
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- education
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20. Medieval Myths & Mysteries (The Great Courses)
By: Dorsey Armstrong
4.14
Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 5 hours and 6 minutes Was King Arthur a real person? What about Robin Hood? Is… read more
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- education
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21. The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
By: Sam Kean
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science Fr… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Many people agreed with one executive who sneered that [Thomas] Edison had a vacuum where his conscience ought to be."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
"A rival politician countered that he too supported the dissection of those who were sucking the public teat dry. He proposed starting with the royal family."-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science
22. Banned Books, Burned Books: Forbidden Literary Works
By: Maureen Corrigan
4.18
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
Throughout the 24 lectures of Banned Books, Burned Books: Forbidden Literary Works, author and book… read more
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- literary criticism
- education
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23. Language Families of the World
By: John McWhorter
4.43
Format: 16 pages, Audible Audio
Listening Length: 15 hours and 54 minutes Language, in its seemingly infinite varieties, tells u… read more
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24. Zombified: Real-World Lessons from Fictional Apocalypses
By: Athena Aktipis
3.52
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
You watch a horror movie or TV series and think, "Zombies don’t really exist". But when you conside… read more
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- nonfiction
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25. Great Utopian and Dystopian Works of Literature
By: Pamela Bedore
4.24
Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio
12 hours 26 mins Can literature change our real world society? At its foundation, utopian and dy… read more
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26. How Science Shapes Science Fiction
By: Charles L. Adler
4.20
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Whether science fiction is exploring current realities, extrapolating from the present to create im… read more
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27. The Novel that Invented Modernity: Don Quixote de la Mancha
By: Ilan Stavans
3.87
Format: 5 pages, Audiobook
Distinguished man of letters Ilan Stavans believes Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha "i… read more
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28. Sci-Phi: Science Fiction as Philosophy
By: David Kyle Johnson
4.30
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
13 hours and 31 minutes The science fiction genre has become increasingly influential in mainstr… read more
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29. The Philosopher's Toolkit: How to Be the Most Rational Person in Any Room
By: Patrick Grim
3.88
Format: None pages, Audio CD
Thinking is at the heart of our everyday lives, yet our thinking can go wrong in any number of ways… read more
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30. Black Holes Explained
By: Alex Filippenko
3.89
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Imagine a region in space where the force of gravity is so strong that nothing - not even light - c… read more
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31. Books That Matter: The Decameron
By: Kristina Olson
3.45
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
A deadly plague ravages the land; so, a small band of people flee to the country. There, in relativ… read more
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