by Aldous Huxley (1932)
Huxley's astonishing vision of an engineered future where citizens are chemically conditioned into castes, pacified by state-issued soma, and stripped of individuality in the name of collective stability.
Margaret Atwood
In the Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian regime that has overthrown the United States government, women are stripped of all rights, and the few remaining fertile females are forced into sexual servitude as Handmaids.
Isaac Asimov
Mathematician Hari Seldon uses the revolutionary science of psychohistory to predict the imminent collapse of the 12,000-year-old Galactic Empire and creates the Foundation at the edge of the galaxy to preserve human knowledge and shorten the dark ages.
Stanislaw Lem
When psychologist Kris Kelvin arrives at the research station hovering above the oceanic planet Solaris, he finds the crew deranged and terrified by physical phantoms materialized from their deepest, most shameful memories. Stanislaw Lem crafts the definitive meditation on the terrifying impossibility of truly understanding an alien intelligence.
Cormac McCarthy
A father and his young son walk alone through burned America toward the coast. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind, sustained solely by their love for one another and the imperative to carry the fire.