Speculative fiction can help us understand how things could be, as opposed to how they happen to have ended up so far. What are the necessities and what are the accidents of history? The real-life answers are sometimes surprising. Speculative fiction can give our imaginations “stretching exercises” that help us navigate around illusions in which we have been long immersed.
New! Literary Criticism: Literature and the Economics of Liberty: Spontaneous Order in Culture, Edited by Paul A. Cantor and Stephen Cox
Across Realtime by Vernor Vinge
Anathem [Audible] by Neal Stephenson
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Dark Universe [Audible] by Daniel F. Galouye
Dune by Frank Herbert
A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Old Man’s War, The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
The Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith
Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy
The Star Fraction, The Stone Canal [republished in one volume as Fractions] by Ken Macleod
Snowcrash [Audible] by Neal Stephenson
State of Fear [Audible] by Michael Crichton
Time Enough For Love [Audible] by Robert A. Heinlein
Voyage From Yesteryear by James P. Hogan
Note: Titles on the same line are in sequence within a given storyworld.