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The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life
Click to view Spring equinox will be here in just a few weeks, and there's no better way to get ready for the seasonal change than to dig into some great science fiction books. io9 wants to help you get in the mood for transformation by offering this list of twenty science fiction novels that could change the way you see the world, and maybe even change your life. Whether it's because they've altered the course of science fiction writing, or simply provide a genuinely alien perspective on ordinary life, these are novels that will rearrange how you think. Check out our list below.
The City & The City: Amazon.co.uk: China Mieville: Books
The City & The City is the latest by an author who has garnered quite a reputation these past years for being original, insightful and basically pretty damn good.
Ah, "The Book of the New Sun".
Shadow and Claw: The First Half of the Book of the New Sun: Amazon.co.uk: Gene Wolfe: Books
The Sot-Weed Factor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sot-Weed Factor is a 1960 novel by the American writer John Barth , which marks Barth's discovery of Postmodernism . [ 1 ]
A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel: Amazon.co.uk: Tom Phillips: Books
I wish I had found Tom Phillips' book sooner.
The Interpretation of Cultures Basic Books Classics: Amazon.co.uk: Clifford Geertz: Books
Published in 1973, this book is still as fresh and insightful as ever. With a perceptive eye and flowing writing capacities, The Interpretation of Cultures combines the two difficult tasks of being both educational and a joy to read. The idea of culture, puzzling and challenging for generations, is analyzed by a variety of methods.
The Concept of Mind (Penguin Modern Classics): Amazon.co.uk: Gilbert Ryle, Daniel Dennett: Books
Product Description This epoch-making book cuts through confused thinking and forces us to re-examine many cherished ideas about knowledge, imagination, consciousness and the intellect. The result is a classic example of philosophy.Jonathan Turner Meades (born 21 January 1947) is a British writer on food, architecture, and culture, as well as an author and broadcaster . He is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society [ 1 ] and a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association . [ 2 ] [ edit ] Education
Jonathan Meades - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a very interesting novel; not only in terms of its content, but in terms of its function as a touchstone of decadent 1890s English literature. Indeed, it's rumored to be the novel which corrupts Dorian Gray in the Wilde novel of 1891. A novel with only one main character sounds a bit strange.
Against Nature (Penguin Classics): Amazon.co.uk: Joris-Karl Huysmans, Patrick McGuinness: Books
This book draws your attention the minute you start reading the first few pages, a description of a medieval painting of a crucifixion scene.
The Gospel According To Jesus Christ (Panther): Amazon.co.uk: Jose Saramago: Books
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The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge Penguin Social Sciences: Amazon.co.uk: Thomas Luckmann, Peter L. Berger: Books
La Bête humaine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
La Bête Humaine is an 1890 novel by Émile Zola . The story has been adapted for the cinema on several occasions. It is based around the railway between Paris and Le Havre in the 19th century and is a tense, psychological thriller .Ideas: A History: Amazon.co.uk: Peter Watson: Books
Barely five years after completing "A Terrible Beauty: The People and Ideas that Shaped the Modern Mind", Peter Watson has repeated that astonishing achievement. This time he goes back to the beginnings of human prehistory to examine ideas - their development and their impact on human life up to the year 1900.Theodore Zeldin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Theodore Zeldin CBE (born 22 August 1933, British Mandate of Palestine ), President of the Oxford Muse Foundation, is an English philosopher , sociologist , historian , writer and public speaker. Zeldin was born in Palestine and went to school in Egypt and at Aylesbury Grammar School . He entered Birkbeck College, London when he was 15, graduating in 1951.Lud-in-the-Mist (1926) is the third of three novels by Hope Mirrlees , and the only one still in print as of 2005 [update] .