Classic SCI FI from the 1960s that YOU SHOULD READ!! No spoilers.

Mooreimagines a world in which the Confederacy wins the US Civil War,giving a fascinating look at a that might have been.

I've lost count of the number of times thatI've read Dune over the years, and I'm repeatedly amazed how well it holds upfor a book that's now on 60 years old. I get something different from it everytime I read it.

There follows an intriguing and ultimately rather tragicparabolic journey for Charlie. Famously, Keyes employs a clever device to help usgain an insight to the profound transformation that Charlie undertakes.

Stand on Zanzibar is a classic cautionary tale posing difficultquestions and offering no real solutions. It's as much a study of humannature as it is a tense look at a world teetering on the brink of dystopia.

The Left Handof Darkness is not a stark treatise on masculinity and the role of gender insociety, or rather it is that, but it's disguised in a beautifully writtentapestry of life on Gethen, full of little details and observations, makingthe story come brilliantly to life.

Once again, this book is very much a product of the Cold War and the 1960sparanoia, a frightening parable, if you like, on the disasters that await welose control of our hubris.

The Man in theHigh Castle is a tale of what can happen when a free people are confronted bytyranny. Yes, there's a resistance, but the majority of Americans have becomesubservient in their own land, making the best accommodation that they canwith the new authorities.

In The Wanderer, Leiber creates a compelling vision of god-like alienslargely indifferent to our fate. All we poor humans can do is try to survive theexperience.

Mishtigo's journey is a foil, a mechanism for us toconsider whether Earth is worth preserving.

Up the Line has Silverberg'strademark prose, making for a very enjoyable reading, and his interests inthe historical periods visited in the book are obvious.

Way Station is also notable for itsbucolic setting. Nearly all of the book is set in Enoch's house and gardens, arural idyll that Simak describes beautifully.