The Invention of Morel (1964)

1984 (adaptation)

Michael Dean

2003 · 37 pages · 7 reviews

Others: Mostly positive

Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people every second of the day. He fights this world with love. But it's dangerous: love for another person can be punished by death - and Big Brother is always watching. Orwell's classic story shows that there is no freedom unless ideas and beliefs can be questioned. This is as true today as when it was written, more than fifty years ago. --back cover

Gravity's Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon

1973 · 776 pages · 2 reviews

Others: Overwhelmingly positive

The atrocity exhibition

J. G. Ballard

1970 · 139 pages · 2 reviews

Others: Positive

First published in 1970 and widely regarded as a prophetic masterpiece, this is a groundbreaking experimental novel by the acclaimed author of Crash and Super-Cannes, who has supplied explanatory notes for this new edition.

The three stigmata of Palmer Eldritch

Philip K. Dick

1965 · 233 pages · 6 reviews

Others: Overwhelmingly positive

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is a 1965 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick. It was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965.[1] The novel takes place in 2016. Under United Nations authority, humankind has colonized every habitable planet and moon in the Solar System. Like many of Dick's novels, it utilizes an array of science fiction concepts, features several layers of reality and unreality and philosophical ideas. It is one of Dick's first works to explore religious themes.

Picnic on Paradise

Joanna Russ

1968 · 157 pages · 1 review

Others: Positive

Hurled through time to a strange future world where unseen forces clashed in an inexplicable war, Trans-Temporal Agent Alyx was given the job of guiding eight very important tourists to a station of safety. Alyx seemed exactly right for the job: she was tough, resourceful, and exerienced in the hard hand-to-hand fighting of Earth's barbaric past. But when she found what traps and dangers she faced in this gleaming tomorrow, even Alyx began to fear...

Mission to the Stars

A. E. van Vogt

1960 · 159 pages · 1 review

Others: Positive

The colonies of Fifty Suns, hidden for eons in an ocean of stars, are finally traced by the warship, Star Cluster, of Imperial Earth. Torn By rebellion, Fifty Suns must crush the titanic Earth forces or submit to the domination of the Great Galactic Union. It falls to one man, Peter Maltby, brilliant leader of the feared Mixed Men, to unite the warring factions of his galaxy and guide them to victory. But first he must resolve his own crossed loyalties. For Captain Maltby of Fifty Suns is also the passionate lover of Lady Laurr, Grand Commander of the Star Cluster, warrior of Imperial Earth...