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Last and first men by Olaf Stapledon

One of the most succinct and accurate renderings of mankind's present state of mind and future progression. It documents the …

Calde of the Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun) by Gene Wolfe (Litany of the Long Sun (3))

Tales of Pirx the pilot by Stanisław Lem

In Pilot Pirx, Lem has created an irresistibly likable character: an astronaut who gives the impression of still navigating by …

The Dying Earth by Jack Vance

Seekers of wisdom and beauty include lovely lost women, eccentric wizards and man-eating melancholy deodands. Twk-men ride dragonflies and trade …

Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe (Book of the New Sun (1))

The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume series, The Book of the New Sun. It …

Diaspora. by Greg Egan

Shadow & Claw by Gene Wolfe (The Book of the New Sun)

Shadow and Claw is an omnibus of the first two books of Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun. …

Sword & Citadel by Gene Wolfe

The urth of the new sun by Gene Wolfe

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, #1)

A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when …

Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (The Expanse, #1)

Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars are still out of our …

Nightside The Long Sun (Book of the Long Sun) by Gene Wolfe (Litany of the Long Sun (1))

A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge (Zones of Thought, #2)

After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: …

Cosmos by Carl Sagan

This book is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together. It is the …

The book of the new Sun by Gene Wolfe