Classic science fiction books

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The 19th century saw a major acceleration of these trends and features, most clearly seen in the groundbreaking publication of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in 1818. The short novel features the archetypal "mad scientist" experimenting with advanced technology.[40] In his book Billion Year Spree, Brian Aldiss claims Frankenstein represents "the first seminal work to which the label Science Fiction can be logically attached".

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Now science fact.

 

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Now science fact.

 

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The Ship of Ishtar (Collier Nucleus Fantasy & Science F…

The Ship of Ishtar, a universally hailed classic of the…

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Yep! This is the place to post those classic sci-fi books you've enjoyed over the years.

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Anybody that ever read "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" (and understood the message) would ever vote Democrat.

 

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My copy is on its way. It's about trumps time as president. Shortest book ever written. It starts "the end" .

That's it. I thought you would love it.

Fuck off you loon.

 

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I grew up with this series

 

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And this series too, had a profound impact on me.

 

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And then these are also some of my favorites...

Cotton candy for the mind...

And the Well World series ranks way up there too.

 

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I recently re-read "When World's Collide" that I last read 50 years ago. Written in 1933, it predicts both nuclear power and nuclear weapons.

The book envisions the last months of Earth as two rouge planets approach Earth so closely as to cause total destruction and the effort to build a nuclear space ship that can fly a small group of refugees to one of the new planets which is believed to be habitable.

However, many of its passages openly praises when the fictional "President" in the novel (clearly a Roosevelt figure) nationalizes all of the industries in a national emergency and orders the execution of workers who are deemed to be "lazy or selfish". The book openly espouses what today would be considered Fascism, while it speaks disdainfully about Mussolini and the Fascist rise in Germany (Hitler came to power in the year it was published).

Written as it was, in the height of The Great Depression, it talks about all the unemployed in America being rounded up and sent to work camps to grow food and build housing for the rest of Americans as something good and praiseworthy.

This one isn't quite science fiction, but is a futurist novel. . . and looky looky who the author is. . .

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This one isn't quite science fiction, but is a futurist novel. . . and looky looky who the author is. . .

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'When Worlds Collide' was written by Phil Wylie and Edwin Baumer.