A Modern Utopia
By: H.G. Wells , Francis Wheen , Gregory Claeys
4.50
Format: 168 pages,
"Well's uncanny ability to highlight the problems which are now most acute and supply tentative sol…
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1. Robot Dreams (Robot, #0.4)
By: Isaac Asimov
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Os mais espetáculares contos do mestre da ficção científica estão reunidos nesta antologia. read more
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- science fiction
- classics
- fiction
"And Elvex said, "I was the man." - In "Robot dreams" (Short story)"-Isaac Asimov, Robot Dreams (Robot, #0.4)
"Yet, if there is the possibility of this satisfaction from accurate prophecy in science fiction, there is also the reverse. Science fiction offers its writers chances of embarrassment that no other f…"-Isaac Asimov, Robot Dreams (Robot, #0.4)
"And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer--by demonstration--w…"-Isaac Asimov, Robot Dreams (Robot, #0.4)
2. The New Atlantis
By: Francis Bacon
3.09
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In New Atlantis, Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressin… read more
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- classics
- philosophy
- fiction
- science fiction
- utopia
"We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep"; beseeching Him of His mercy, that as in the begin…"-Francis Bacon, The New Atlantis
3. Leviathan
By: Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson
3.71
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
'The life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short' Written during the chaos of the En… read more
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- philosophy
- classics
"Hell is truth seen too late."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
"LET THE GAY BEGI- I MEAN GAMES BEGIN!"-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
"The Conscience is a thousand witnesses."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
" Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power."-Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
4. Brave New World Revisited
By: Aldous Huxley
4.67
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
When the novel Brave New Worldfirst appeared in 1932, its shocking analysis of a scientific dictato… read more
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- dystopia
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5. Player Piano
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.38
Format: 613 pages, Paperback
Kurt Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way t… read more
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- science fiction
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6. Imperium in Imperio
By: Sutton Elbert Griggs
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Self-published in 1899 and sold door-to-door by the author, this classic African-American novel--a … read more
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- classics
- fiction
7. The Scarlet Plague
By: Jack London
3.88
Format: 136 pages,
'An old man, James Howard Smith, walks along deserted railway tracks, long since unused and overgro… read more
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8. 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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- dystopia
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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
9. A Modern Utopia
By: H.G. Wells , Francis Wheen , Gregory Claeys
4.50
Format: 168 pages,
"Well's uncanny ability to highlight the problems which are now most acute and supply tentative sol… read more
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- classics
- philosophy
- dystopia
- 20th century
- fiction
- science fiction
- utopia
10. The New Organon
By: Lisa Jardine , Francis Bacon , Michael Silverthorne
4.71
Format: 595 pages, Paperback
Francis Bacon's New Organon, published in 1620, was revolutionary in its attempt to give formal phi… read more
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- philosophy
- classics
11. Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions
By: Fredric Jameson
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World and the so… read more
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12. Utopia
By: Paul Turner , Thomas More
3.55
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation whe… read more
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- utopia
"The change of the word does not alter the matter"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?"-Paul Turner, Utopia
"Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all."-Paul Turner, Utopia
13. Looking Backward: 2000-1887
By: Edward Bellamy , Walter James Miller
3.99
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
Edward Bellamy's classic look at the future has been translated into over twenty languages and is t… read more
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- classics
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14. Red Star
By: Alexandr Bogdanov , Charles Rougle
3.52
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
"[A] surprisingly moving story." --The New Yorker "Bogdanov's novels reveal a great deal about thei… read more
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15. The Blazing World and Other Writings
By: Margaret Cavendish , None
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
Flamboyant, theatrical and ambitious, Margaret Cavendish was one of the seventeenth century's most … read more
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16. News from Nowhere
By: William Morris , David Leopold
3.50
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
News from Nowhere(1890) is the best-known prose work of William Morris and the only significant Eng… read more
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17. The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
By: Eric Hoffer
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in h… read more
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18. Robot Visions (Robot #0.5)
By: Isaac Asimov , Ralph McQuarrie
4.33
Format: 300 pages, Mass Market Paperback
From Isaac Asimov, the writer whose name is synonymous with robots and the science of robotics, her… read more
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19. The Complete Robot (Robot #0.3)
By: Isaac Asimov
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
THE COMPLETE ROBOT is the definitive anthology of Asimov's stunning visions of a robotic future... … read more
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20. The House of the Dead
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Ergin Altay
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Paperback
Accused of political subversion as a young man, Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to four years of h… read more
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21. Erewhon (Erewhon , #1)
By: Samuel Butler
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
In this novel, Butler satirically describes a utopian society, using the civilization of 'Erewhon' … read more
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