mimi10v3Speculation before the genre's machinery became familiar: submarines, manufactured life, automated societies, dystopian futures, and invasion as ways of estranging the present.
The recorded ratings average 6.4/10, with 1 perfect ten. Recurring authors include Jules Verne.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Mimi’s noteI had a tattered yellowed paperback copy as a child, cover held on with scotch tape and sections of pages falling out, I assume I took it from my parents shelves though don't remember a…
7/10Classic Literature : Science FictionA Wrinkle in Time
About the bookWhen their father, a physicist working on a tesseract, vanishes, Meg Murry and her younger brother Charles Wallace set out on a perilous journey to find him. Guided by the enigmatic Mrs…
7/10Classic Literature : Science FictionFoundation
About the bookIsaac Asimov's Foundation opens with the Galactic Empire in its final stages of decline, a collapse that psychohistorian Hari Seldon predicts will be followed by thirty thousand years o…
6/10Classic Literature : Science FictionFrankenstein
About the bookMary Shelley's 1818 novel follows Victor Frankenstein, a young natural philosopher who, through an unorthodox experiment, animates lifeless matter to create a sentient being. The narrat…
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| 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | Jules Verne | 1870 | 10 | Read | → |
| A Wrinkle in Time | Madeleine L'Engle | 1962 | 7 | Read | → |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 1932 | — | Partly read | → |
| Foundation | Isaac Asimov | 1951 | 7 | Read | → |
| Frankenstein | Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley | 1818 | 6 | Read | → |
| Paris in the Twentieth Century: The Lost Novel | Jules Verne | 1994 | 6 | Read | → |
| The Machine Stops | E. M. Forster | 1909 | 5 | Read | → |
| The War of the Worlds | H. G. Wells | 1898 | 4 | Read | → |